Best. Hint. Ever.

I'm not much of a Dock fan since I've always used something like Quicksilver (Alfred nowadays), so I changed -float 0.05 to -float 5.0. Now the dock will never sneak-pop up on me again! And if I need the dock, I've mapped F5 to hide/show the dock.

Also, after a quick test, I guess the delay specified by this option determines fullscreen behaviour: Without a delay set, I had to pull twice over the bottom of the screen to show the dock. With a non-zero delay set, I have to pull only once but as long as determined by the delay. Thus, with a zero-delay, the dock shows immidiately if you hit the bottom of the screen.

Can anyone confirm this?

Doing that also changed the dock's behavior in full-screen mode. The dock now pops up immediately the first time I point to the bottom of the screen (ordinarily, in full-screen mode, you have to do this twice to get the dock to pop up).

Doesn't work in 10.6.8 SnowLeo, so i't probably 10.7 Lion only.

Yep, doesn't work in 10.5.8, either.
An "autohide-delay" key duly gets added to:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist
...but it's ineffective; I made mine 2.0 seconds, but nothing changed. (Just in case it wasn't in seconds, I tried 2000.0, but no difference.)

Apple never got this right. It's a PITA for the Dock to appear when I'm trying to do something else in that proximity. I would gladly trade-off a longer delay to get the Dock than have to contend with its unwanted appearance.

What would be ideal for me is to require a click at the edge of the screen to bring-out the Dock. I've tried any number of AppleScripts to do that, but nothing works usefully.

(*

"position of the mouse" uses XTool 2.0 osax:
<http://lestang.org/osax/XTool/XTool-2.0.dmg.tgz>
Put in ~/Library/Scripting Additions/

*)

on run
	do shell script "defaults write com.apple.Dock tilesize -int 1"
	set DockSize to "narrow"
	tell application "Dock" to quit
	tell application "Finder" to activate
end run

on idle
	if (end of (position of the mouse) = 999) then
		delay 1
		if ((end of (position of the mouse) = 999) and DockSize = "narrow") then
			do shell script "defaults write com.apple.Dock tilesize -int 200"
			set DockSize to "wide"
			tell application "Dock" to quit
		end if
	else
		if DockSize = "wide" then
			do shell script "defaults write com.apple.Dock tilesize -int 1"
			set DockSize to "narrow"
			tell application "Dock" to quit
		end if
	end if
	return 1
end idle

Just wanted to say that HyperDock is beyond awesome.

Thanks :) If you use this hint, you should upgrade to the developer version (hd preferences -> advanced tab -> upgrade to unstable versions) as it includes some special fixes for this.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm actually not going to use this hint though. Seeing what's going on with apps and docs is sorta the point of the dock (for me)... hiding the dock doesn't help me.
But it is aggravating how the dock reserves the whole length of the bottom of the screen (or right height of the right of the screen in my case) even if it's actual width is only a 1/4.

Does anyone know if the same thing exists for hidden menu bar in full screen?

Registered an account to say thanks for this tip. Too bad it doesn't work on Snow Leopard.

Wow. It's amazing how much that adds to <i>teh snappy</i> of the dock. Oh yeah, I'm rockin the html.

I actually like the delay. It helps when you've got a very tall window and you need to do something in its nether region. If the dock were to spring up immediately, it would be more difficult to get hold of the window's border or something near it.

When entering the command into terminal, should I be typing it in after the text that's already in there or something else? Thanks,

Peter

Works in snow leopard 10.6.8 for me.

Also this command makes an auto-hiding Dock snap into place immediately. Removes the Dock Animation completely.
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0;killall Dock

Return to the OS X default animation speeds with the following defaults write command:
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier;killall Dock

This should be added to the original hint too. I used the following to speed up the dock animation in addition to the initial hint's delay time reduction:

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.5 && killall Dock

Hi guys - anyone found a way to do something similar with the menubar in full screen mode?

• defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0
(this hint) removes the delays completely in full screen and normal screen mode
• defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-fullscreen-delayed -bool false only removes the additional delay for showing the dock in full screen
• defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.7
reduces the delay and the duration of the animation for showing or hiding the dock