Im sure that many other people out there are annoyed by many things in Mac OS X Leopard, myself being one of them. So, here is my simple solution for fixing one of them: the Dock.
If you don’t like the 3D view of the Dock when its placed on the bottom of your screen, fire up the Terminal and execute these commands:
defaults write com.apple.Dock no-glass -bool yes;
killall Dock
That will make your bottom-placed Dock appear just like when its placed on the side of the screen. But lets take it one step further, shall we?
If you’re like me, then you might have found the Dock’s white outline annoying. Here’s a solution for removing it.
- Open the Terminal, and type the following:
cd /System/Library/CoreServices - Type this command:
sudo cp -r Dock.app Dock.original.appThis will backup the original Dock in case you decide to revert back later - Enter your administrative password when prompted
cd Dock.app/Contents/Resources/- Here’s the lengthy part:
sudo mv bottom1.png bottom1.png.bak; sudo mv bottom2.png bottom2.png.bak; sudo mv bottom3.png bottom3.png.bak; sudo mv bottom4.png bottom4.png.bak; sudo mv bottom5.png bottom5.png.bak;This will remove the border from the Dock when it is along the bottom of the screen. killall DockIf after executing this the changed are not reflected, you will need to log out and log back in or restart your computer.- Repeat the last 2 steps, replacing ‘bottom’ with ‘left’ or ‘right’, depending on what sides you’d like to have the border removed on.
Happy Docking!