November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
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| Tip 72 | Stop the Dock from Getting Broken |
It’s very easy to accidentally resize the Dock when using a Mac or delete icons from it. All it takes is a misclick of the mouse. The following two commands typed into a Terminal window will “freeze” the Dock, making it impossible to resize it or to remove/rearrange/add icons:
| | defaults write com.apple.dock size-immutable -bool TRUE |
| | defaults write com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool TRUE;killall Dock |
To “unfreeze” the Dock so you can resize it and add/remove/rearrange icons, issue the following two commands in a Terminal window:
| | defaults delete com.apple.dock size-immutable |
| | defaults delete com.apple.dock contents-immutable;killall Dock |
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