Comments on: Minimize Windows Into the Applications Dock Icon

By: Syd Salmon

Syd Salmon — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:15:16 +0000

Unfortunately, this tip only works in Snow Leopard.

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How to make applications minimize into their Dock icon - OS X Daily — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:39:57 +0000

[...] Dock app icon and selecting the window directly. Yes, we have covered this tip before but it was by changing the minimize behavior via the command line, I find it much more simple to do this tricks through the GUI whenever [...]

By: Slopjong

Slopjong — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:03 +0000

The same to me. It doesn’t work on 10.5.

By: LeMaurien19

LeMaurien19 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:39:50 +0000

I agree with Rushabh, this works better:

System Preferences > Dock > tick checbox “Minimize windows into dock icon” (lower part of the window)

The command line provided in the post also gives me the same error Coinneach gets

By: Coinneach

Coinneach — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:31:02 +0000

Doesn;t work on 10.5
i get the following error

Unexpected argument YES; leaving defaults unchanged.

By: NTT

NTT — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:19:52 +0000

Is this SnowLeopard only??

By: Tomball

Tomball — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:53:13 +0000

Or you could check the Minimized windows into Application Dock in the Dock System Preference

By: Rushabh Mehta

Rushabh Mehta — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:57:24 +0000

Hey, there is an option in the GUI
System Preferences – Dock- Minimize windows into dock icon