Fix the Ugly Dock in Leopard

October 15, 2007 by admin · View Comments 

I’m going to do a little tech blogging this morning. I just upgraded all of my Macs to Apple’s new Leopard operating system. For the most part (beyond the usual first version bugs and compatibility issues) it’s a welcome improvement.

One thing I dislike about the upgrade are the changes they made to the dock.. To try and make it more aesthetically pleasing they made it more difficult to see what applications were currently running (the little dot underneath open apps blended into the background).

Thankfully there’s a fix. Simply type this command into terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
then type killall Dock.

After you’re done the dock will appear and look like this:

Sometimes simple is better! If for some reason you want to return to the old/new dock, simply replace the “YES” in the above command to “NO.”

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