Two ways to pin your 10.1 dock

Oct 04, '01 11:59:00PM

Contributed by: jsako

I don't know if any of the GUI utilities still work in 10.1, but I was able to pin my dock to one side (or top/bottom) by taking the original code for pinning from the 10.0.4 version of DockMenus.plist and adding it to the DockMenus.plist file in 10.1. Refer to the original instructions for editing this file in "Move and Corner your Dock".

The code I added to the 10.1 DockMenus.plist file (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist) after the closing [/dict] tag for key 1013 (as this was its original position) is as follows:

[dict]
[key]command[/key]
[integer]1014[/integer]
[key]name[/key]
[string]Pin[/string]
[key]sub[/key]
[array]
[dict]
[key]command[/key]
[integer]1020[/integer]
[key]name[/key]
[string]Start[/string]
[/dict]
[dict]
[key]command[/key]
[integer]1021[/integer]
[key]name[/key]
[string]Center[/string]
[/dict]
[dict]
[key]command[/key]
[integer]1022[/integer]
[key]name[/key]
[string]End[/string]
[/dict]
[/array]
[/dict]
Happy pinning!

[Editor's note: The easy way to do this (but what fun is that?) is to get TinkerTool 2.0 Preview Release. Under 10.1, it installs as an additional preference panel - quite slick, actually, and still free!]

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