REALLY big Dock magnification

[m1ss1ontomars]

If your 128x128 icons aren't big enough for you, you can increase the magnification of the dock to really big. Type this into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -float 256.000000; killall Dock

BTW, you can change "256" to any number bigger than the default dock icon size. I don't know why the size has to be a float, but that's the way it started out, so that's the way I left it. Unfortunately, none of my apps has a 256x256 icon, so all the icons simply look blurry. But they're really big!

 

[ZoomZoomZoom]

If your 128x128 icons aren't big enough for you, you can increase the magnification of the dock to really big. Type this into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -float 256.000000; killall Dock

BTW, you can change "256" to any number bigger than the default dock icon size. I don't know why the size has to be a float, but that's the way it started out, so that's the way I left it. Unfortunately, none of my apps has a 256x256 icon, so all the icons simply look blurry. But they're really big!

Maybe I'll do this on a friend's computer without telling him. Might give him a little jump the next time he uses his computer

 

[iBookG4user]

if you use this command in terminal
defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -float 510.0000000; killall Dock
then you can get it this big !

 

[x86isslow]

is there a way to boost the maximum size of thumbnails in finder? i like to have my Pictures folder show preview, and 128x128 is too small

 

[SBik2]

If your 128x128 icons aren't big enough for you, you can increase the magnification of the dock to really big. Type this into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -float 256.000000; killall Dock

BTW, you can change "256" to any number bigger than the default dock icon size. I don't know why the size has to be a float, but that's the way it started out, so that's the way I left it. Unfortunately, none of my apps has a 256x256 icon, so all the icons simply look blurry. But they're really big!

for some reason in terminal it reads:2006-10-01 18:57:35.433 defaults[331] Could not write domain com.apple.dock; exiting

 

[SBik2]

for some reason in terminal it reads:2006-10-01 18:57:35.433 defaults[331] Could not write domain com.apple.dock; exiting

Never mind... i found that somehow it was locked.. i got it to work and gosh is it huge!

 

[kainjow]

512 is the biggest it goes for me in 10.4.8. Anything else, it appears to default to 128.

 

[hayduke]

is there a way to boost the maximum size of thumbnails in finder? i like to have my Pictures folder show preview, and 128x128 is too small

I agree. Has anyone figured this out? Is it possible?

 

[m1ss1ontomars]

I agree. Has anyone figured this out? Is it possible?

No, it isn't (according to Wikipedia). The Finder apparently doesn't have support for icons larger than 128x128 yet. In theory.

 

[x86isslow]

Lol. Go figure that the Dock would be more advanced than Finder...

 

[pengu]

isnt leopard getting 512px icons?

 

[benpatient]

vista's got stupid-big icons. i'm sure leopard will have even bigger ones. resolution independence might even make them think about vector icons...it would make sense.

 

[Shadow]

This is exactly why we need a reso-independant GUI + icons! Go BIG icons!

 

[Temujin]

Looks really cool guys.

A quick question:
Could fiddling around with this code cause my noobish self to compromise my system?

And just to make sure I got this right. To change the size back to default I just type: "defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -float 128.000000; killall Dock" ?

 

[mac4matt]

Yes, that seems to work.