Highlight Stack Items on Hover
Jan 7, 2008 - 27 Comments
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-hilite-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-hilite-stack -boolean no
This does not work.
Are you sure about this one?
works for me, nice tip
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?
to the comment above, no it doesnt go away it stas on untill you say other wise
It doesn’t work for me either.
SWEET!
It only works on GRID view.
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It didn’t work for me either until I noticed that it’s not ‘hilite’ but ‘hilte’ in the command listed above.
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…)
Yep, works here fine. Just have to set to grid view. Would be nice if they did this also in fan view.
What is Terminal?
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Why don’t you just press the TAB key in the stack…
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Thank you so much for the hint. That REALLY MAKES the Stacks feature much easier to use.
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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.
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.
anyone get this to work in snow leopard? seems like it would be ON by default in this OS.
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There´s a typing fault in the command
This should be “hilite” not “hilte”
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean YES
killall Dock
Working fine on Snow Leopard 10.6.x
Thanks for catching that!
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