AUTO HIDE DOCK ON SOME DESKTOPS

I have 3 desktops with different apps and windows on.
I want to set the dock to auto-hide in one of these but keep it visible in others.
How can I achieve this?
If I choose auto-hide, it becomes so in all desktops.

It's a global setting for the logged-in user.

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Auto-hide dock

is there a way to make the menu bar auto-hide like the dock does so that it only appears when the mouse is over it?

It is technically possible to modify an individual application so that its menubar "autohides" by adding an 'LSUIPresentationMode' with an integer value of "4" to its "Info.plist" file or "plst" resource... with apps that have an "Info.plist" file, the change can be made easily with a text editor. However, overall, since it is an application specific effect, it isn't really practical. Also, visually, the menubar may be hidden, but because of their behaviour in OS X, windows resist occupying the space where the menubar would be so there isn't really a gain in screen real estate.
But just to demonstrate, try copying "TextEdit.app" from the "/Applications" folder to your "Desktop", then launch "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app" and enter these commands:<pre>defaults write ~/Desktop/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info LSUIPresentationMode -int 4
chmod +r ~/Desktop/TextEdit.app/Contents/Info.plist
touch ~/Desktop/TextEdit.app</pre>Then launch the app. If there is no change, try to ⌘D duplicate the app, and launch the copy.

Dock not showing in auto hide

Hi,
My dock is set to auto-hide, and I am using spaces. however my dock does not always show when in put my cursor at the bottom, I have to swap to and from another space to get the dock to show or unhide.
My hot corners are also not working.
any suggestions, spaces bug?
Thanks

could be a bad preference file.
move the file homedirectory/library/preferences/com.apple.dock.plist to the desktop. then restart dock by entering the following in terminal
killall Dock
this will reset your dock to the default and might fix the problem.

Dock auto-hides, despite preference setting

An odd occurence with my MBP Retina. Despite the "Automatically hide and show the Dock" preference being UNchecked, my dock still auto-hides, but only when I click on stacks under certain circumstances. So, this doesn't happen when the stack is set to show as List; only when set to show as Grid or Fan. Then, when I single-click on a Grid or Fan stack, the dock will always auto-hide after losing focus. Does anyone else with a MBP Retina have this problem? I'm using the latest software to date, OS X 10.8.3.

If CT's suggestion didn't work, try resetting the dock.
Try doing a Dock restart using the following Terminal command:
killall Dock
Log out/in and test. If that doesn't work.
You need to look in your user Library/Applications Support/Dock for the .db. Hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command. Enter ~/ Library/Applications Support/Dock. Move the .db to your desktop.
If you prefer to make your user library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/04/show-library-directory-in-mac-os-x-lion/
You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.4. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.

Launch pad turns dock auto hide on

On my MacBook Air every time I use launch pad my dock auto hide feature gets turned on. To see my dock again I have to turn auto hide back off. Why is launch pad turning auto hide on? And how do I fix this?

In System Preferences > Dock, do you have "Automatically hide and show the dock" checked? If so, uncheck it.

Gnome Shell Dock Extension - Auto-hide?

Hi folks,
Does anyone know if it's possible getting the dock extension for Gnome 3 to auto-hide?
Cheers.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49685
Works fine here, but I changed AUTOHIDE_ANIMATION to 0 since the animation was lagging a lot. You can also install manually from http://www.fpmurphy.com/gnome-shell-extensions/ .

Dock closing but auto hide unchecked

Hi chaps, my dock keeps disappearing but the auto hide is unchecked ... anyone any thoughts (I know I can bring it back by dragging the cursor to the bottom of the screen but if it's hidden and I drag a file down - to put it in the trash - the dock doesn't appear, I have to drag the file back to it's position open dock and then drag again) !

1. Open a Finder window.
2. In the menu bar click Go.
3. Select Go to Folder...
4. Type ~/Library/Preferences and press Return.
5. In the Finder window look for com.apple.dock.plist and drag it to the trash.
6. Click the blue apple and select Log out from the bottom of the list.
7. Log back in and set up your Dock preferences again.

Auto Hide the Dock

I know this can be done by pressing 'F' and I dont want to use auto-hide all the time.
Is there a way that you can auto hide the dock when Aperture starts up?

Hello J:
Try trashing the preference file (com.apple.dock.plist) and restarting. Then enter your personal dock preferences.
Barry

Auto-hide playbar

Hi,
Is there a way to autohide the playbar in the published files? I would like the playbar to appear only when the mouse is over the area where the playbar should be, something similar to 'auto-hide the taskbar' on the desktop.

Some confusion with Vish, he did not see I was answering and also preparing a blog post. Here is the work flow in short, will post the link to the blog post where I will have an example and screenshots, when it is published.
First, grab a copy of Chris Dorna's widget to hide the close button on the slidelet, it is free:
HideSlideletClosebox
Configure the playbar and the borders so that the playbar is in overlay mode (will be on top of the slide instead of below the slide) and that no borders are showing.
for the first slide, on Enter Side attach the action Assign cpCmndShowPlaybar with 0 to hide the playbar
insert two rollover slidelets: make sure that the stroke is set to 0 and that the color is set to the color of the background or configure its style in the Object style manage so that no border, nor runtime border is shown
size the first rollover slidelet to approximate the size of the playbar, the second you put little bit higher and attach the rollover actions to change the variable to 1 for the first, to 0 for the second
insert Chris' widget and configure it to hide the close button for both slidelets
You have to repeat the last 3 actions for all the slides, easy with copy/paste but you'll have to edit the HideSlideletClosebox properties to adapt to the new ID of the slidelets.
Lilybiri

Auto/Hide with Flv playback doesn't work with javascript lightbox, need help?

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i created some swf loading a flv file in a flv playback and
check on the auto/hide parameter. When i test the movie it works
very well. BUT, in my website, i put those swf files in Lightbox
(javascript computed) and when the mouse goes Over the flash video,
it shows the Skin player and when the mouse goes Out, the Skin
player stays over the video!? Why? Does someone has an idea on how
to force the auto/hide paramater in this case?
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Found this post when searching for an answer, but didn't find much elsewhere so I'll post my quick and ugly solution here. I'm sure it can be vastly improved, but I didn't have much more than 5 minutes. Note - setting .visible to false just ended up causing the autohide transition to occur over and over, so instead I'm just temporarily moving the whole sprite offscreen.
(AS3, using CS5 component... note that 'player' is the FLVPlayback instance):
//### force 'autohide' when mouse inactive
var timer:Timer = new Timer(1500, 0);
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, onTimer);
timer.start();
var skinSprite:DisplayObject;
var prevMouseX:Number;
var prevMouseY:Number;
function onTimer(e:TimerEvent):void {
//get skinSprite if we haven't already
if(!skinSprite) {
    var child:DisplayObject;
    for(var i:Number = 0; i < player.numChildren; i++) {
      child = player.getChildAt(i);
      if(i == 2) { //this is the skinSprite
        skinSprite = child;
//check to see if mouse hasn't moved since last timer event
if(skinSprite && mouseX == prevMouseX && mouseY == prevMouseY) {
    skinSprite.y = -1000;
prevMouseX = mouseX;
prevMouseY = mouseY;
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, stage_onMouseMove);
function stage_onMouseMove(e:MouseEvent):void {
if(skinSprite) {
    skinSprite.y = 0;

(Chrome Like) Auto-Hide Tab bar in Safari Full Screen mode

Is there a plugin or some other way to auto hide the tab bar in Safari fullscreen mode like the way Chrome does?
This is the only thing stopping me from using Safari, it's way smoother than Chrome and feels much more native to Lion, but the fact the tab bar just keeps hanging there is annoying.
I tried the Cmd+I method mentioned in the community, but it only works when you're only opening one tab, if you open several tabs, the tab bar will show up again. It also comes back up once you exit Full Screen mode.
Thanks for your help !

Hello myzzzl, this is normal behavior in full screen mode, you can set the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.fullscreen.autohide browser.fullscreen.autohide] in about:config to False, to change that, but if you do that tabs and location bar is enabled in full screen mode.
wait if another contributor/helper give you a code which I don't know.
thank you

Safari always auto-hide bars, always: also in normal screen mode (not full-screen, which is when autohide happens)

Bookmark bar is auto hidden in fullscreen mode, how to keep same functionality in normal mode out of full-screen?
In full-screen I just have the main toolbar showing, which is how I want it all the time. This or either make "full-screen" a lot better.

Hmm, i think i phrased original question badly, i am looking for auto-hide to be featured in normal window mode as well as fullscreen, and whatever else designers and programmers can dream up and not execute poorly.
I have now disabled all EXTENSIONS and removed all 3rd party bars (google, sharethis, never used nayway;) and as my suspicions confirmed Safari is running much better. I was very suspicious of this when it was added as it seemed like trying to match Firefox, which I also gave up some time ago in place of Chrome as my second browser, although I use Safari for 90%. The extensions i think causes freezing when i had Parallels running a Windows VM at the same time and also other times when not.
The extensions is a bit stupid in my opinion as any niggling, minor feature of a website should be addresses to the website rather than the browser. Where adverts are concerned, well, just use the web less or more specifically!
I think I'm fine with Toolbar/URL-search and bookmark bar, its great - simple and not intrusive. I believe EXTENSIONS introduction gave me some sort of weird mental outlook and would urge Apple to be more careful in bringing in different types of features unnecessarily.

A How to turn off auto hide tools/panles

So Flash 9 has a new feature that is annoying me : it likes
to auto hide the tools/panels.
apparently Flash is turning this feature on at at random. I
realize that I must be accidentally hitting some hot key that turns
it on, but I can't find how to stop it. It's rather annoying.
How do I disable the auto-hide for the tools and panels?

Just go to settings, view, toolbars autohide.

Auto-hide

Dear Community. I am playing a "window-mode" game in which takes up the full resolution for my screen. In order to compensate for the room needed at the bottom of the screen I have chosen to "auto-hide" the task bar. I have chosen to stay in window mode because I would like to be able to travel around while playing this turn-based game. So then, I choose to work on other workspaces. My question is, can I have auto-hide turned off on say workspace2 while on, on workspace1?

What window manager are you using?
Auto-hiding some panel sounds like gnome.
If so you will not be able to adjust auto-hiding in different ways for different panels since gnome only distinguishs between lets say one panel on the bottom and one on the top edge of the screen (at least as far as I know).

Menu Bar on Auto Hide

I just updated my macbook pro to version 10.7.4 and my top menu bar is now on auto hide. It wasn't like this before but now it is. I don't know if this is because the update or because of something else. Please help me get it back. Thank you!

There are some third party hacks that will make this happen - you have never played with any of them?
Some troubleshooting steps - see if the behavior persists:
(1) For a different user, e.g., Guest.
(2) In Safe Mode. Starting up in Safe Mode

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