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Hidden dock issue with Lion GM

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Little Angel

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Jul 3, 2009
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When I looking at an app in full screen, when I move the cursor down to the dock to reveal the dock, it doesn't reveal.
Is this a bug?
Anyone else getting this?
Thanks for feedback.
LA
 
I believe this intentional. The normal move to bottom of screen does not trigger it because the dock would then impose on your fullscreen app. The way to do it is to move the cursor to the bottom of the screen then move down again - this seems to trigger the dock. Always works for me anyway.
 
Little Angel said:
When I looking at an app in full screen, when I move the cursor down to the dock to reveal the dock, it doesn't reveal.
Is this a bug?
Anyone else getting this?
Thanks for feedback.
LA
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This is not a bug. You have to go back to a desktop to view the dock. If the dock reveals in a full screen app, it is a bug.
 
nathanl1192 said:
This is not a bug. You have to go back to a desktop to view the dock. If the dock reveals in a full screen app, it is a bug.
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If you move the cursor to the bottom, and then make another, separate movement down, you can make the dock appear every time (it is not erratic.)

I doubt this behavior is unintentional. it allows easy access to the dock without going into Mission Control, while at the same time making it impossible for the dock to appear unintentionally in fullscreen.
 
I'm having the same thing happen. Dock sporadically appears when I move the cursor down to the bottom. Still sporadic when I do the 'move it down, then up and then down' motion suggested.
 
Reid Stairs said:
I'm having the same thing happen. Dock sporadically appears when I move the cursor down to the bottom. Still sporadic when I do the 'move it down, then up and then down' motion suggested.
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He didn't say "down, then up, then down again". He said "Go down" "Stop" "Go down", the stop can either be an actual stop on the track or the a lift up of the mouse or the finger. The only requirement is that the mouse cursor stays at the bottom of the screen before the second "go down".

Here it's not erratic at all.
 
u have to move the cursor on the edge and then again even further, its not a bug ur just doing it wrong ;)

probably so u dont open the dock by mistake when u just want to navigate on the edge of the full screen app
 
Dock and full Screen

bushido said:
u have to move the cursor on the edge and then again even further, its not a bug ur just doing it wrong ;)

probably so u dont open the dock by mistake when u just want to navigate on the edge of the full screen app
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It's a bug. The Dock hides and un-hides with out flaw except in Full Screen mode. I like other users have noticed the erratic behavior.

To get any sort of "reliable" use of the Dock in full screen:

Move cursor to edge of screen
Dock does not appear
Move cursor back from screen edge 1-2mm, and then back to edge.
Dock should un-hide

No way this is normal. Call it an unexpected feature but it don't call it normal
 
Moving to the bottom only seems to work with Safari, Mail, iCal. Other apps that have the full-screen option like Chrome do not show the Dock no matter how you move the mouse at the bottom.
With the Apple apps it works every time.
 
Cougarcat said:
If you move the cursor to the bottom, and then make another, separate movement down, you can make the dock appear every time (it is not erratic.)

I doubt this behavior is unintentional. it allows easy access to the dock without going into Mission Control, while at the same time making it impossible for the dock to appear unintentionally in fullscreen.
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Thank you for explaining it more in detail. This does work for me and explains why it seemed erratic before. If you don't know that's what the new behavior is, you may not realize that's what's happening.

Kind of hard to do this with a mouse, but works well on my trackpad.
 
Seems to work. Two downward one finger strokes in succession.
One stroke down. Lift finger. Then a second stroke down.
Always works. Not erratic.
 
Thanks everyone.
Just for more info, I was initially doing this in chrome full screen & it still doesn't show this way no matter what combination of gestures i use.
All other full screens its shows with the swipe down & swipe again feature.
LA
 
I was not in fullscreen mode and the dock wouldn't appear when I put my mouse cursor in the area (to the left side).

It came back after manually switching 'Hide dock' off and on again.

Just another reason why Lion is atrocious.
 
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