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A simple poll on a topic that usually stirs much opinion -- vote here and tell us whether your Dock is visible or hidden, and which side of the screen you keep it on...
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Visible, on left side, no magnification, as small as it gets.
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It also would be interesting to know if people had their "magnification" turned on... I have my dock set on the smallest setting - with magnification turned off and no autohide... but then again I have 60+ items on my doc and run my monitor at 1920x1200...
Bottom is least worst (on largish screens)
Tried all positions, but tend to use the bottom ... because:
Bottom is least worst (on largish screens)
I most say... I've never seen an app that allows the mouse to transfer over multiple machines.
How to have more Macs than mice...
Teleport from abyssoft is the one that works best for me (and responsive developers too) ... though there are other packages around ....
Does a reply to an off-topic request count as on-topic?
;o)
How to have more Macs than mice...
Does anyone know of a program that will perform this function between mac and pc?
Bottom is least worst (on largish screens)
"Computer, hide dock"Don't wish for something, make a speakable item for it!
Talk to the Dock...
*sigh*
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Bottom Right Hidden,
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Same here for both statements.
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I don't understand how it can be both bottom and right. Could someone please elaborate?
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You can set the "pinning" to "end" if the dock is on the bottom. do a google search for OS X dock pinning
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Left Side-> Apple Menu Nostalgia
I put my dock on the left side, as it sort of serves the purpose that the old Apple Menu did in OS9 and earlier. I just got used to having useful stuff there, and I ain't gonna change it.
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Top, hidden, smallest size. I use Drag thing with a dock on the bottom, hidden, to serve as the right-half of the dock (holds files and folders) and a Drag Thing dock on the left, hidden, to replace the left half of the dock (running apps and app shortcuts).
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Pretty much the same for me, except I have a running processes dock in the top left of my screen to the right of the HD icons similar to what you could do in OS 9. And a dock in the bottom left with ~folders and drag-to applications that I use alot. I use Quicksilver to launch apps.
more than one dock?
I have more than one Mac, and more than one user. While I normal keep the dock on the bottom, hidden with mag, on other Macs or as another user I have it in different places, sometimes hidden or not, and of different sizes. So I think it depends on for what one uses the computer as well as past habits.
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Bottom, hidden, with magnification. There are only a handful of icons because I use Butler and Spotlight for most navigation.
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Bottom, no magnification, rather large size. I don't hide them because I can move to them faster and plus I am a Fruit-lover and customize my icons!
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
I keep mine hidden on the left side of my screen; I use a tabbed DragThing dock at the bottom of my screen 99% of the time. If there were a "safe" way to get rid of the Dock, I would.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Yes! DragThing is what the Dock should have been. Lumping all "things" (applications, websites, documents, folders, processes) into one interface is ridiculous.
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I keep the Dock visible on the bottom right, using the following defaults command:
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I keep it hidden at the lower rignt. I rarely use it; haven't for years.
On the right -- to mimic OS 9, 8, 7
Here's my rationale: If you set the Finder icon in the Dock to open to your Home folder, it's showing you essentially the same thing you'd see if you double-clicked on your hard drive icon in previous versions of the OS. So I put the Dock on the right, and it stretches the entire length of that side of the screen. So my Finder icon is top right, just like the hard drive icon was in pre-X days, and my Trash icon is bottom right, just like in pre-X days. Also, in pre-X days, I kept my Applications and Documents folders over there on the right, as well as icons for all of my most commonly used applications -- e-mail, web browser, word processor. I've put all those same folders and apps in the Dock. (I use LaunchBar to launch all other apps.)
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Mine in on the bottom and visible. Just wondering what is pinning and how do you do it?
Left monitor, off the Menubar's screen
I detested having the dock taking up my main monitor's real estate. Visible and on the alternate monitor is just delightful to me, pinned to the very left as to not get in the way of anything. Hiding and zooming dock's have never thrilled me in the least, unless I am trying to show off to someone who has never seen a mac with some marginally useful eye candy, much like exposé and the dashboard.
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On the left, visible, with placement set to start (thanks Cocktail).
Right, pinned to top
My reasoning goes like this. Most monitors (especially the newer ones from Apple) are much wider than they are tall, so you have more room for a dock over to the side than at the bottom.
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On a normal 4:3 display I keep it on the bottom, but on a wide-screen display i keep it on the right. I have very few items on the desktop, and the right side never interferes with appz.
In both instances I have it set to smallest size, and showing all times. no magnification. No more than 20 icons on there, and these are only there for drag & drop purposes. For all launching I use Launchbar.
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Top left, pinned under the Apple in the menubar.
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I keep mine on the right. Here's the logic: I have a powerbook (17"), which has a wide screen format. I have a lot more room in the width than I have in the height of the screen. So that explains why not the bottom (or top?). I chose the right because it just felt natural to me, and it stuck. The other upside is that the trash is in a 'normal' location. One downside is the overlap with the drive icons, but it is minimal.
Different setups
I have two very different Dock setups in my two PowerBooks.
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Bottom, hidden.
Left, small, minimal maginifcation
Left, and I have debated the merits of EACH spot and hiding.
Bottom, Center, Hidden
Quicksilver is how I access both closed and OPENED applications. If I want to switch to Shiira? Just press ?-Space and type "web", or for iTunes? Press ?-Space and type "it". Easy as can be and non-relative, so I get to the application I want the same way everytime.
Bottom, Center, Hidden
Left, because I'm left handed.
Top right, because...
I miss the NeXTStep dock... sigh.
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Using an app named Butler, I have keyboard shortcuts for nearly everything. I don't use the dock at all anymore.
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Bottom, unhidden, with Cleardock making the background transparent. Fairly large icons with a small magnification going on. |
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