Just thought I'd throw a little PowerPC love into the mix so we don't feel left out with all the Snow Leopard hints dominating lately.
On my G4 Powerbook, occasionally the Dock won't come out of hiding; it's stuck and unresponsive. I got tired of having to open Terminal or Activity Monitor to kill it, and ever since I installed Leopard, I don't use Dashboard any more (where I always had the killDock widget ready for numerous reasons - particularly to kill the Dashboard processes) because it's too slow on this machine. So I looked for a faster way to get the Dock to respond again. I always have the Displays menu bar item showing, so I tried selecting Detect Displays from and voilĂ , the Dock suddenly became unstuck.
I'm not sure what's causing the unresponsiveness, but I seem to be pushing the limit of this PowerBook lately, and with a DLP always attached but not always powered on, the displays often get stuck in dual mode, and some windows are hidden in a non-existent space. Detect Displays fixes that as well. Perhaps this is also affecting the Dock.
On my G4 Powerbook, occasionally the Dock won't come out of hiding; it's stuck and unresponsive. I got tired of having to open Terminal or Activity Monitor to kill it, and ever since I installed Leopard, I don't use Dashboard any more (where I always had the killDock widget ready for numerous reasons - particularly to kill the Dashboard processes) because it's too slow on this machine. So I looked for a faster way to get the Dock to respond again. I always have the Displays menu bar item showing, so I tried selecting Detect Displays from and voilĂ , the Dock suddenly became unstuck.
I'm not sure what's causing the unresponsiveness, but I seem to be pushing the limit of this PowerBook lately, and with a DLP always attached but not always powered on, the displays often get stuck in dual mode, and some windows are hidden in a non-existent space. Detect Displays fixes that as well. Perhaps this is also affecting the Dock.
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