How do I get those Stacks overlays to work?

[Kalixa]

I'm trying to use the stack overlays from: http://t.ecksdee.org/post/19001860

But I can't get them working. Apparently the overlays are set to a date, so they always will appear in front. But they don't on my Mac. When I drag them over they will appear in front, but when a newer item is placed in the same folder, as the stack overlay, the overlay will just go up in the "stack hierarchy"

The commands:

cd ~/Downloads

touch -mt 202001010101.01 " Downloads "

don't work either.

So why can't I get it working?

 

[pjrobertson]

Restart your computer or open terminal and type in:

killall Dock

It'll refresh everything (and all should hopefully be well.)
Hope this helps.

 

[Kalixa]

Restart your computer or open terminal and type in:

killall Dock

It'll refresh everything (and all should hopefully be well.)
Hope this helps.

Nope. This didn't help.

And I forgot to mention before: When typing touch -mt 202001010101.01 " Downloads " into the terminal, an empty text file called Downloads is created.

 

[.adam]

Just put the icon in the file you're using as a stack, and call the icon the name of the file with a space in front of it.

For example, I have a file called "Inbox" as a stack. In the "Inbox" file is an overlay icon called " Inbox" (note the space in front of the word inbox).

Simply order the stack by name and you're good to go.

 

[bobthecow]

follow the instructions here. they make the overlays work whether you sort by name, date added, date modified, etc...

 

[pjrobertson]

There's no need to do the touch command, that should have already been done on the files you downloaded. Try re-downloading them, then putting them in the folder.

The reason you were getting an empty text file after doing the command is because the file isn't "Downloads" but " Downloads"
Notice the space in front of the word

 

[NickToye]

I'm telling you this doesn't work. I have tried both options and both times I just get the blank white file icon.

I am following everything to the letter.

 

[bobthecow]

I'm telling you this doesn't work. I have tried both options and both times I just get the blank white file icon.

I am following everything to the letter.

Throw away your existing overlays.

Download the overlay set again.

Drag the icon you want from the disk image to your desktop.

Then drag from the desktop to your stack.

Don't rename it, don't "touch" it. Just put it on your stack.

... If that still doesn't work, open a terminal and run this command:

killall Dock

If that doesn't work, good luck

 

[NickToye]

Well that isn't going to work is it?

We all know that we can drag that icon to the stacks and if it's the most latest file it will work, but then you add another file to the stack and that file will be the one you will see.

Jeez.

 

[Mal]

Well that isn't going to work is it?

We all know that we can drag that icon to the stacks and if it's the most latest file it will work, but then you add another file to the stack and that file will be the one you will see.

Jeez.

Well are we a know it all. You do realize that these methods are intended to work because the files have a special property added to make them always appear as the most recent file, right? Or have you just ignored the fact that these actually work for most people and that you might just have screwed something up by thinking you knew exactly what you were talking about?

jW

 

[NickToye]

I only know what I have read mate, so let me get this straight.

I download the stacks icons from here:

http://www.geocities.jp/chy065/

And then just simply drag them into the stacks and it should automatically work as intended?

Well it didn't, it just showed up the icons as a circle with a line through it. Then when I did killall Dock it moved them to the front. So now when I add a new file to the stack it should work? Well it didn't.