Make Your Dock Icons Translucent for Hidden Apps

Apple-loving weblog TUAW highlights a simple Terminal tweak that makes all of your hidden applications appear translucent in the Dock. Just fire up Terminal and paste:

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES

Then restart the Dock by pasting killall Dock and hitting enter. Once it restarts, any app you hide shows up dimmed in the Dock. You can make this tweak along with many others with previously mentioned Secrets, but if you’d prefer not to install another preference pane, this Terminal tweak will do the job.


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    Nic Avery

    Monday, August 25, 2008 at 1:52 PM

    I am very new to apple after years of using a PC, so little tricks like this are a great help me to me. Thanks!

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