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How do you put the dock on the top? And why would you want to?
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To position your dock at the top use a utility like Cocktail or Tinkertool.
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As noted, it's a great spot to hide it if you rarely use it. I put it up there when I'm working in a full-screen app like Motion, as it prevents accidental activation of the dock.
To do it without third party utils, it's just this in Terminal:
It's also covered in this hint.
-rob.
hide and minimise the dock
I made this simple Applescript to write the dock prefs to make the dock close to invisible and out of the way.
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With my dual monitor setup, a 23" and a 30", with two DragThing docks at the bottom and right side of the main monitor, and the left side of the monitor too far over for the Apple dock, I decided to try the top. You can use a utility like Cocktail or Xupport to activate this feature.
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I keep it at the top and after a few days of it being there I can use the track-pad on my 17" PowerBook to stop on a dime precisely where that "thin strip" of activating pixels is. It's not for everyone, or even ideal, but it's certainly not impossible to activate.
Right, End pinning, Visible
I don't keep anything in my dock. I use it for informational purposes only as to see if an app is running. Right end pinning is my preference and 16 pixel wide (The smalles I can get). The only things constantly in my Dock are the Trash (always in the same location) and the Finder. All the other items change with use.
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The disadvantage to using Cmd-Opt-D to invoke the dock is that it will push and resize windows that happen to be in the way. Even after the dock has retracted, the affected window(s) will not move back/resize to the previous state before Cmd-Opt-D. This does not happen with the mouse.
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I have six screens, three over three with the Menubar on the lower-center, so I have the Dock visible on the upper-center-top. I rarely use it as a launcher (use hotkeys for 90% of dozens of daily apps), but I do use it as a visual indicator of running processes, alerts, mail-count, Office notification counts, etc. |
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