Hide Dock

When i select hide dock nothing happens.The dock still pops up. Is this a bug?, or am i doing something wrong?
Cheers

All it does is turn on hiding for the Dock while Logic is running. So, if you have hiding turned off normally (Dock is always showing), then when you launch Logic it will turn on Dock hiding - but it still operates like normal Dock hiding.
It would be nice if it did put the Dock behind Logic, whether your hiding the Dock or not, but oh well...

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I've upgraded to 10.6.4 and I don't seem to have your problems. Try un-checking hide dock in preference and checking it again.

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Scenario: I need to maximize my 1024x768 screen when I do photo editing, so every time I open Gimp.app, I hide my dock. Since I tend to re-arrange icons on my dock periodically, I generally like to leave it showing. When I quit Gimp.app, I sometimes forget to un-hide the dock and am annoyed later on when I can't easily see the icons.
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If I use this as a launcher, I could give it a Gimp icon and put it in the Dock instead of Gimp. If it is activated by Gimp, the other option I mentioned in #1, the icon would not be significant because hiding mode will be turned on every time my home-made app is open.
I see several potential solutions but can't iron out the details. I have searched Google and these forums, and found solutions to a few similar problems, but have not been able to adapt those solutions to my needs. If this could be handled better with something other than AppleScript, feel free to point it out. The ideas I have for doing this are:
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2) Set this up in Automator
3) Save a Unix shell script, or
4) Write a simple Java application.
I think using Java would make this unnecessarily complicated, because #1, #2, and #3 can all handle system events quite well, that's not really what Java was meant to do. It may still be an option, though. I have generated a few working parts of the program in #1 and #2, but I the only waiting command I could find waits for the user to click in a dialogue box, not to quit an application.
I hope this isn't too much of a newbie question, I've done a lot with Macs before, and this ought to be simple but I'm stumped. I've never needed to post on a Mac forum, but you can find me all over the Linux forums, since that isn't my forte! Help will be greatly appreciated.

Save the code, provided below, as an applications (AppleScript applet, via the 'File Format:' popup menu), and click on the 'Options:' 'Stay Open' checkbox to add a check mark.
-- Code starts here --
property tApp : "Gimp"
on run {}
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock" to keystroke "d" using command down & option down
tell application tApp to activate
end run
on idle {}
tell application "System Events"
set pNames to name of processes
tell process "Dock" to if (not (pNames contains tApp)) then
keystroke "d" using command down & option down
tell me to quit
end if
end tell
return 2
end idle
-- Code ends here --

Hide dock in certain Spaces?

I use VMWare to run Windows, unfortunately, in Mac OS X Leopard for some web apps that require IE.
I was just thinking it would be nice to be able to hide the dock for the Space I have assigned to VMWare to reduce the clutter in that Space. No preference is immediately apparent to me in System Preferences to do this. Curious if anyone else has thought of this and if there is a solution, Terminal or otherwise, that might accomplish this.
Cheers!

this is definitely impossible right now. You can request that apple add this feature here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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http://www.azarhi.com/Projects/DSW/
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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
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margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
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Recently experiencing intermittent Preferences reset to show Dock all the time. Anyone else having this problem and a possible fix? TIA

The "Standard (PPR)" template is included in all the builtin themes since version 2.0. But if you have upgraded your Apex installation from an earlier version, the upgrade process will NOT stick that template in your existing apps/themes.
To get it, the easiest way is to install the Sample Application (Home>Create Application > Sample Application), choose the theme you want (to match your actual application) and proceed to install the sample application.
Now go to your app, go to the page you are on, click on the + next to the Templates in the 3rd column and choose Report template, "As a copy of a ...", choose the Sample app you just installed, and select the Standard PPR template.
Now all you need to do is go to Report Attributes and switch your report template to this new template and the column header sorting will not refresh the page so your Hide/Show region will stay open.
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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.
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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.

Stick Show/Hide Dock Status with each Space ?

Hi,
I'd like to save the Show/Hide status of the Dock with each and every Space, so that for example I can always see the Dock on Space 1 where I have my Mail, iChat, iCal and other apps which use their Dock icons to notify me of new events, but I never want to see it on Space 3 or 4 where I only have Aperture or Logic on my entire screen.
Then I wouldn't have to press commandoptionD to show or hide the Dock each time after switching to a different Space.
Is that somehow possible ?
Thanks !

Hi,
I'd like to save the Show/Hide status of the Dock with each and every Space, so that for example I can always see the Dock on Space 1 where I have my Mail, iChat, iCal and other apps which use their Dock icons to notify me of new events, but I never want to see it on Space 3 or 4 where I only have Aperture or Logic on my entire screen.
Then I wouldn't have to press commandoptionD to show or hide the Dock each time after switching to a different Space.
Is that somehow possible ?
Thanks !

THe dock should appear (when hide dock option is enabled) while resizing

This is a suggestion
When the dock is hidden, and when one tweaks with options regarding it, it remains so. It should transiently appear while the modifications are being made, for easier tweaks.

Hi tito.is.human,
Welcome to the forums.
This is a peer to peer forum. If you want to send this suggestion to Apple I would recommend Apple's Feedback Webpage.
cheers,
-TT

How to disable menu bar and dock when playing a full screen game? Like sims 4

i play sims 4 on my MacBook pro and if I go to close to the bottom of the screen or the top the menu bar or dock pops up I was wondering if there is A program or a setting I can use to disable that while in something full screen or gaming

The game itself should already have the option for full screen. But you can go to system preferences dock and check the hid dock option. Then you would have to go to the very edge of the screen to get the dock to reappear.

10.4.8 and dock

Is there a correlation between the upgrade to the new OS and my dock? When I upgraded, a day later, my dock was defaulted to the factory settings, along with my icon sizes.

Try deleting the Dock settings file. To do it, open a Finder window, select Go menu (on the menu bar) > Go to Folder, and type ~/Library/Preferences. Then, delete "com.apple.dock.plist", open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) and type: killall Dock
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Dock + mission control

When using different desktops in mission control, I want to be able to hide the dock for a certain desktop. I have this set up as a remote connection to PC and thus the dock just gets in the way. Can this be done on a desktop by desktop basis (hide dock)?

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How do I not display some icons on the Dock?

I have a few apps which I'm always running, and they do more backgroundy tasks that I don't really need a dock icon for. It's just filling up my already over-crowded dock up with useless icons. Is it possible to hide the icons of some apps even when they're running?

Actually, there is a way to hide dock icons of running applications. It's not a simple checkbox-type option (unless the application itself provides the option), but it is doable.
You need to edit the "Info.plist" file of each application you want to hide. Lets say the application is Safari (which you obviously wouldn't want to hide). You would go to Safari in the Applications folder. Ctrl-click on it and choose "Show Package Contents." Go into the Contents folder, and there will be a file called "Info.plist" Ctrl-click on it, go to "Open with" and click on other and select TextEdit in your Applications folder. Anywhere in the document, paste the following onto their own lines:
[KEY]NSUIElement[/KEY]
[STRING]1[/STRING]
Save the document. Now the next time you open the Safari, it's Dock icon will be hidden. Since the Dock icon is gone, that means you can't select the app, so you can't get to it's menus to change options and it will not show up in the Force Quit dialog (but if you need to, you can force quit it in Activity Monitor), so you obviously wouldn't want to do this for Safari or any other programs you regularly interact with.
If you need to unhide the Dock icon later, just change the 1 to a 0. I would do this with the app closed, but if you can't then you'd probably just have to restart it. Also, you may have to do this again if the app is updated.
Hope this helped.

Hiding dock...where did it go?

Last night my dock disappeared...it only appears now when I move my mouse down to the bottom of screen. I must have turned on (or off) some feature - or rather the kitten did when she walked across the keyboard. What is a simple method to reset? I have a laptop (and yes, I am relatively new to apple computers!) Thanks.

It's a feature that allows you to hide Dock automatically when you aren't using it. To turn it off, go to  > Dock, and turn off hiding, or open System Preferences > Dock, and deactivate this feature

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