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Where is your dock?

Where is your dock?

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Right, 32px, auto-hide.

I have a 13" widescreen Macbook, so having the Dock on the bottom would waste too much screen real estate.

I have almost no items in it, too.
Finder, Safari, Mail, iTunes and a Stack of file templates, my Work in Progress and Archives folders and the Trash.

I launch apps with Spotlight.
 
Left, no magnification, no auto-hide. I had it on the bottom for a long time, but for some reason I tried it on the left one day...never went back. The gain in vertical real estate is a big benefit for me.
 
Right side, no auto-hide, no magnification. With wide screens and almost everything on computers being scrolled vertically, it just makes less sense to have it taking up vertical space on the bottom (especially on a 13” screen). And I use the dock badges too much for auto-hide to be useful. The gain in vertical space is awesome, and I have more horizontal space than I need anyway. Took some adjusting at first, but now I love it.

Plus, the 3D design is too busy for my liking.
 
Bottom for me. Default size and settings. Never bothered to change the settings; the Leopard defaults fit my needs from day one.

I may experiment with it on the left side, though, to see whether that opens up some vertical real estate and improves my "work"-flow. Like devburke, I find that I have a lot of horizontal space, and I have a second monitor for Safari browsing.
 
Bottom, hidden. Size: +/-25% Magnification: +/- 50%

I tried it on the side for awhile, but found that I accidently exposed it much more frequently.

Hmmm. I have a new, wider monitor now and never thought to try that again.
 
BOTTOM where is should be!

I love the Dock, its one of the best things in OSX and a huge improvement over Microsofts poor attempts of providing a launch pad for your most common apps.

I can't see why anyone would want it anywhere else and would even need to hide it. Admittedly I do run a 24" iMac which might make a difference in smaller screen real estate situations.

I don't like large graphics, so mine is pretty small and has apps spaced out, but I would never hide it or move it, that would be sacralage!

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Hidden on the bottom. If I start using an app with a lot of buttons on the bottom I usually bump it over to the left (still hidden).

I've never liked keeping the dock visible.
 
cricketbird said:
@healeydave

How do you put spaces in your dock?
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Type this line in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'

and then issue a killall instruction:

killall Dock

You can then drag the space to where you want it, consider it a dummy/blank icon.

To remove simply drag off as usual.
 
healeydave said:
Type this line in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'

and then issue a killall instruction:

killall Dock

You can then drag the space to where you want it, consider it a dummy/blank icon.

To remove simply drag off as usual.
Click to expand...

Most Leopard modding apps will add them too without manual Terminaling.
 
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