Highlight Stack Items on Hover
January 7th, 2008 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks, Customize, Leopard, 10.5
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
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Comments:
Comments: 14
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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