Kill bouncing of dock icons (forever, though!)

Hello
I desperately seek a way to stop dock icons from bouncing at ALL - not only DURING opening applications!
It really makes me sick. Every time a program, running in the background, seeks my attention, its icon starts bouncing, in a most stupid and ugly looking way, even if the purpose of the attention is irrelevant to me at that very moment (and that's the case most of the times).
I searched the internet about that topic, but found only how to stop icons from bouncing during opening.
All I want is to work undisturbed in one application, but having other applications running in the background.
Any Help? Please!
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Sure, just use this in place of the first command:<pre>defaults delete com.apple.dock no-bouncing</pre>Most of these defaults commands where a path isn't specified only modify the ".plist" files inside your user's "~/Library/Preferences" folder anyway, so even if things get really screwed up, your account should be the only one affected and it will usually be possible to just delete the associated ".plist" file and log out and back in again to have everything go back to default settings. Apart from having to restore customized settings back to the way you want them, there shouldn't be any lasting effects.
However, if 'defaults' is used and a path is specified, and especially if it is preceded by 'sudo', those changes could act at the system-wide level, and in some cases could break things seriously so exercise caution.

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