The new dock in Leopard is not the greatest thing around. In fact, depending on your background, the windows you have open near it, and your personal preference, it might drive you crazy. Luckily, there is a Terminal trick for returning it to an appearance similar to Tiger’s.First of all, launch Terminal. Type the following command into the terminal window and press return:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
That tells OS X that you want the dock to appear on the bottom in the same way as it would if it were put on the left or right side of the screen. Then, to apply the changes, enter:
killall Dock
Now, the dock should look closer to its old appearance, without really losing its eye candy appeal. If you want to do this quicker or just are not Terminal-savvy, Macworld has some scripts here that will switch between the views. Alternatively, you can download RestoreDock, which does the same thing as the scripts but with a simple GUI.
[Via Macworld]
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May 27th, 2008 at 10:38 pmBehzad
Thanks for this post, but you didn't say how can we get back to Leopard Dock with looking glass style
Cheers
Behzad June 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Behzad
If you want to go back to glass style just type this in terminal:
defaults delete com.apple.dock no-glass
killall Dock
Cheers
Behzad June 2nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm