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A few steps
Authored by: VRic on Mar 19, '04 01:06:34PM

To disable the dock (at least in 10.2):

- move Dock.app out of System:Library:CoreServices:
(or else it will auto-respawn when you try to quit it)

- keep it anywhere you like and add it to every user's login items
(the desktop will misbehave if the dock doesn't launch after login)

- make a basic AppleScript applet that quits the Dock and add it to every user's login items after Dock.app (so that the Dock will launch then quit) - just don't add the "quit dock" applet to users who want to keep the Dock active

This allowed me to replace Apple's Dock with A-Dock, but since A-Dock X is inferior to its OS 9 version and Apple's Dock is needed for the "minimize window" feature to work and is sometimes usefull for feedback, I now try to ignore Apple's dock but keep it there (almost empty) in case I need those features, LaunchBar and Exposé make any dock obsolete as launcher/switcher.



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