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Easy way to restart Dock in Tiger?
Authored by: jiclark on Apr 29, '05 11:37:28PM

So, anyone stumbled across any new tricks for doing things like force-quitting background processes?



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Easy way to restart Dock in Tiger?
Authored by: Nostromo1965 on Apr 30, '05 01:47:33AM

Just open Terminal, and:

kill Dock

and the Dock will quit/vanish, then reload.



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Easy way to restart Dock in Tiger?
Authored by: Nostromo1965 on Apr 30, '05 01:49:47AM

DUH!

It *should* be:

killall Dock



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Easy way to restart Dock in Tiger?
Authored by: stux on May 15, '05 04:39:33AM
I prefer
killall -HUP Dock
his results in a much nicer shutdown of the dock, its really like sending a Quit+Restart command to the Dock, rather than a Force Quit

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Easy way to restart Dock in Tiger?
Authored by: styrafome on Oct 26, '06 03:28:36PM

The GUI way is to quit or force-quit the process from Activity Monitor's list. This is especially helpful if you're not quite sure how to spell the name of the process you want to quit.



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Easy way to restart Dock in Tiger?
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