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Do you keep your Dock hidden or visible, and where is it on your screen?
1/1: Do you keep your Dock hidden or visible, and where is it on your screen?
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I realize there are three sections of each screen edge where you can place the Dock, but 24 combinations seemed like overkill for this simple survey.
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Visible, bottom lower-right for me. I want the trash in the same corner all the time, and the bottom interferes least with open windows.
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Ditto here.
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Bottom lower left, but I keep it hidden. Also, since I use path finder, making the Dock's trash useless, I have some quicksilver mouse triggers in the corner to move dragged objects to the trash, eject disks, and open the trash when I click the lower left corner.
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Ack. That should be bottom pinned right, and quicksilver actions on the bottom **right** corner. Silly me.
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Also, the only items that are permanently there are path finder, quicksilver, and the terminal. I took the regular finder icon out of the dock with TransparentDock (which I don't use for anything else, oddly). I'm not exactly sure how they take the finder out of the dock, but it's great.
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Don't drag to the trash.. use Command-Delete. It's a LOT easier!
Butler, Butler, Sidebar, App Switcher. Did I mention Butler?
Whatever the set up, I've found it takes a little mental commitment to learn the new muscle memory and work habits behind a more efficient work flow. Recently as I've grown more familiar with Butler I've started using that not only to start apps but to by-pass the Application Switcher or Dock and go straight to an app (by going through the same motions as if I was launching it) as well.
Dock on the right...
Of course... where God intended it to be.
Dock on the right...
I think most people have it on the bottom just because it's the default and people either don't know or don't bother to change it.
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me too. right bottom.
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God intended it to be on the bottom... otherwise it would come on the right as default!
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Could you explain or point me in the right direction to understand the "there are three sections of each screen edge where you can place the Dock" statement?
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Could you explain or point me in the right direction to understand the "there are three sections of each screen edge where you can place the Dock" statement?
You can pin it to either edge or let it float in the middle.
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I suspect screen size (or at least aspect ratio) will be a factor in this that you're not capturing. It makes perfect sense to me to have the dock on the left on my widescreen Powerbook, because that still leaves plenty space for most "normal-shaped" documents. But on a 4:3 screen, I'd most likely leave it at the bottom.
Top?
How do you put the dock on the top? And why would you want to?
Top?
To position your dock at the top use a utility like Cocktail or Tinkertool.
Top?
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.
Top?
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.
Top?
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.
Top?
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.
Top?
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.
Don't use the Dock 95% of the time
But I have it hidden on the right side and pinned to the lower-right corner so that the Trash is accessable in essentially the "traditional" location.
Don't use the Dock 95% of the time
I do that as well, essentially for the same reason.
Don't use the Dock 95% of the time
Well, only if you actually drag things to the trash. I always use command-delete to put stuff in the trash from the Finder, as it saves mousing. And if I'm in the Terminal I'll just rm, of course.
Right, visible, pinned to the bottom of the screen
I have mine pinned to the bottom of the screen on the right side, no magnification. Since I just have the 20 items I use the most in it, it's set to a size that's big enough to read the numbers on the badges on Safari, Mail, iChat, etc, but small enough that it doesn't get in the way. Leaves me with a large amount of space at the top of the screen to drop stuff to the desktop if I need to. ^_~
Pinned?
What about pinning?
Pinned?
As noted in my first comment, including pinning would have required 24 distinct choices, plus one for those who have quit the Dock. That was just too many to reasonably handle in a poll and hope that people would figure it out :).
Pinned?
Right on, brutha. Bottom right is where it ought to be for one solid reason: Trash. You can always slam your mouse into the corner and the Trash will always, always, always be there (or whatever else you've hacked to replace the Trash in that location).
hate to admin hidden or magnified
I keep mine visible but very small - less than half an inch high. I can tell what icons I have and mousing over gives all the detail I need. So I can not tell how many unread messages I have in mail or the date in iCal. Never found that important. I have a desktop calendar, use desktop manager and Butler to launch apps.
Corners
I keep mine in the left corner on the bottom edge.
Left, but would prefer right...
I keep mine on the left side, though not ideal.
Left Side Pinned to Start Not Hidden
I must be a mutant because I use the Dock constantly. I have the Icon size set to smallest (Which is pretty darn small!), and have my apps grouped by type (graphics, office, multimedia, etc.).
Mutants Unite!
I too do this. I suspect it's because I feel I missed out on the "NeXT Experience" and wish I had been cool enough to use one.
Powerbook on the right
I have my dock on the right side.With my powerbook this gives me the viewing for most webpages which tend to be setup 1024x768 or 800x600.
For historical reasons...
The Dock was always on the right in the earlier versions of NeXTstep, so that's where I keep it in this new Apple-branded version of NeXTstep that people call "Mac OS X". :)
Different setups
I have two very different Dock setups in my two PowerBooks.
both
For some strange reason, my dock at work is at the bottom, but all my computers at home have it on the right. I never really stopped to think why I did this, but now that I do think about it, it's probably because my monitor at work is so much wider, I can fit more in the dock at the bottom. I'll hide it from time to time to get a handle on either some java windows or classic windows which don't automatically size properly. Incidentally, some websites will automatically resize my safari windows a couple pixels taller than will fit. This has an odd effect on dragging the window off screen: when I drag the window down, it pops right back up and will not stay where I put it until I resize the window to not intrude upon the dock space.
Corner Pinned
Bottom and visible with no Zoom, and corner pinned to the right edge so the trash can is where it should be.
Right/Hidden/No Magnification
Dock on the right just seemed logical to me, which I started doing on my first wide-screen (PB17") monitor. Since 4:3 ratio dominates most window & webpage configs, and workflow generally always begins at Top/Left, a wide-screen monitor leaves a rather convenient space on the RHS which makes for an ideal, usually-always-accesible location for the dock.
in my menu bar
courtesy of Butler - just to the left of date
Left advantages over right
Hi - there are a few problems with the dock on the right:
1) If an window is under the dock, you can't use it's resize handle bottom right 2) It covers over the desktop icons The only problem I've found with the left is Windows Media Player always opens with it's left edge under the dock I also love having the trash in the same position, (in my case bottom left). The other side is also important, having the finder, safari and mail in the same place (top right). If only they let the dock stay full size with space in the middle, so the icons grow into the middle. (Like the RiscOS icon bar (amazingly similar to the dock in many ways))
bottom left
mine is bottom left and set to no magnification with minimum icon size and all this on a 30", looks pretty small now. :-)
Bottom: Middle: Visible
I use QuickSilver for almost all of my launching needs but it is still nice to drag and drop onto other programs. For example: if I have a plist that I don't want to open in its default program, I can drop it onto TextEdit or whatever editor I want. This also works well when I need to open a jpg in PhotoShop that wants to open in Preview. It is also handy for apps that I always seem to use but can never remember the name of (to launch in QS), like Digital Color Meter or Activity Monitor.
Right Docker switches back to bottom
I used to be a dock-to-the-right guy because obviously most screens are wider than they are tall, so it seemed that using up that space is less 'expensive' than using up space at the bottom of the screen.
Right Docker switches back to bottom
Same here, plus you can always hide it if real-estate is a huge issue.
Right top.
Right top, because at 1600x1200 nothing ever gets under it, and I'd much rather have my applications stay in the same place than my trash. Command-Delete for the win! Screenshot.
Left, small, minimal maginifcation
Left, and I have debated the merits of EACH spot and hiding.
bottom, hidden, two icons kept
The only icons I keep on the Dock are Finder and Trash only because I can't remove those or at least unaware of how to. I'm a card-carrying QuickSilver user.
bottom, hidden, two icons kept
TransparentDock lets you take the finder out of the dock.
Minimilastic
Bottom, end position, visible, magnification off, smallest size possible, and it only contains running apps and the trash can. Under Mac OS 9 I used to run a Control Strip replacement called Extension Strip and it had a module called Process Strip which showed the running applications and I used to place it in this exact same spot. So basically the Dock is doing the same job it used to do.
don't like bottom much
I change its position once in a while to top, right, or left but never like it on bottom. It's hidden most of the time, minimized to the smallest size (sans magnification), and pinned at the end.
DragThing
I suppose this is cheating because I use DragThing to give myself, essentially, two docks...
> V
On the right, using ClearDock to see things clearly, and TinkerTool to pin it to the bottom of the screen.
Dock-Position
actually it is left at the bottom...
Visible, Right, Pinned at End (Bottom)
"Pins" the dock at the trash can end to the corner. Which corner depends on where you have your dock.
autohidden when useful :-)
I use the ultra-old 'Application Switcher Menu 2.03' prefpane to autohide the dock for a couple of (generally graphic) apps, it nicely disappears when they come in the foreground and reappears as soo as I click outside them :-)
Right is Right
I find it interesting that the first 'non-default' preference (default being the bottom) is visible right. my choice as well since powerbooks are wider than they are tall and the right is more 'open' than the left.
bottom, pinned left
Bottom, pinned left. I like to keep all the palettes open in Illustrator and Photoshop, and with the Dock pinned to the left it usually doesn't interfere with them.
Depends on Screen Resolution
On my 12" PB I keep it on the bottom and invisible, because at 1024x768 screen real estate is limited. On my dual screen PowerMac (1280x1024 and 1024x768) it is at the bottom and always visible.
Visible right
Used to be bottom, now right and visible all the time because I want to see the application statuses as soon as something (such as email arrival, rss new news, ichat messages, etc.) happens. |
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