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Highlight Stack Items on Hover

January 7th, 2008 - 10.5, Customize, Leopard, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks

Here’s a great tip that creates a nice hover effect when your mouse goes over an application (or folder) within a Leopard stack. Why this isn’t enabled by default in Leopard is beyond me, because it makes navigating within stacks a whole lot easier. Don’t miss out, here’s how to activate it:

Launch the Terminal and type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean yes

then, you’ll have to restart the Dock by issuing the following command:
killall Dock

To disable the hover highlights, type:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean no

Posted by: Bill Ellis

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Comments: 26

Comment from csh
Time: January 8, 2008, 12:42 pm

This does not work.

Are you sure about this one?

Comment from Jon Barek
Time: January 8, 2008, 1:49 pm

works for me, nice tip

Comment from l.durden
Time: January 9, 2008, 4:43 pm

This works great and I agree this should be turned on by default.

When I restart rather it goes away and I have to do it again, any way to prevent that?

Comment from Cmurr
Time: January 10, 2008, 12:51 pm

to the comment above, no it doesnt go away it stas on untill you say other wise

Comment from Jagatei
Time: January 10, 2008, 5:05 pm

It doesn’t work for me either.

Comment from Orange Lobster
Time: January 10, 2008, 5:42 pm

SWEET!

Comment from banyue
Time: January 12, 2008, 12:25 am

It only works on GRID view.

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Comment from Tim
Time: January 13, 2008, 10:03 am

It didn’t work for me either until I noticed that it’s not ‘hilite’ but ‘hilte’ in the command listed above.

Comment from Robert
Time: January 20, 2008, 3:56 pm

Yeah it didn’t work for me either…. at first. I did just as the poster said didn’t notice any for like a day and then it just started working…

(I assume I had restarted or something within that time period.. works now though…)

Comment from SDO
Time: January 20, 2008, 5:27 pm

Yep, works here fine. Just have to set to grid view. Would be nice if they did this also in fan view.

Comment from Tony
Time: January 28, 2008, 7:26 pm

What is Terminal?

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Comment from Chris
Time: May 23, 2008, 12:56 am

Why don’t you just press the TAB key in the stack… ;-)

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Time: August 20, 2008, 5:24 am

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Comment from order acomplia
Time: November 30, 2008, 5:44 am

Very cool design! Useful information. Go on!

Comment from laptop battery
Time: December 2, 2008, 2:20 am

If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and take the medicine at the next regularly scheduled time. Do not take extra medicine to make up the missed dose.

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Time: January 18, 2009, 8:09 am

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Comment from purchase zetia
Time: March 17, 2009, 2:58 am

Very useful website, wants to see much more on it! Go on!

Comment from Training for a Mini Triathlon
Time: June 20, 2009, 3:49 pm

Thank you so much for the hint. That REALLY MAKES the Stacks feature much easier to use.

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Comment from PeterVA
Time: September 16, 2009, 2:46 pm

This started working on it’s own, but then stopped with 10.6.1. I used your solution, but it didn’t work. At further glance, I noticed that the word “hilite” was spelled as “hilte”. I edited the plist file to spell the word as “hilite” and it worked right away.

Comment from professional cialis
Time: November 23, 2009, 2:34 am

wn, but then stopped with 10.6.1. I used your solution, but it didn’t work. At further glance, I noticed that the word “hilite” was spelled as “hilte”. I edited the plist file to spell the word as “hilite” and it worked right away.

Comment from cory
Time: January 16, 2010, 9:31 pm

anyone get this to work in snow leopard? seems like it would be ON by default in this OS.

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