Odd OS X Dock behavior

[Zimmy68]

Today the OS X dock on my late '08 MacBook Pro 15" stop working like normal.

It used to be, when an App was open, the icon would appear in the dock with a sort of highlight.

Now, the apps run fine but no longer appear in the dock. If I minimize it, it does show as a running app in the left hand side, but that isn't what I want it to do.
Is there a quick way to get it to work again?

Thanks,

Zimmy

 

[ClassicBean]

Weird. The exact same thing happened on my wife's MacBook Pro yesterday.

To fix it, I went to Applications-->Applescript-->Script Editor

Then I typed:

quit application "Dock"

Then I hit the 'run' button.

And as Steve would say, Boom.

Not sure what caused the issue in the first place but the restart worked.

 

[iToaster]

Restart the computer. If you don't want to shut down, open Terminal and type "KillAll Dock" which will quit and restart the dock.

 

[Zimmy68]

Restart the computer. If you don't want to shut down, open Terminal and type "KillAll Dock" which will quit and restart the dock.

Thanks.
The dock's behavior restored when I changed the battery power option.

I'll keep these suggestions in mind the next time it happens.