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When I was a Mac user I just hid the dock. cmnd-spacebar, cmnd-tab and cmnd-tilde make the dock not needed IMO.
by city41 5y ago
When I was a Mac user I just hid the dock. cmnd-spacebar, cmnd-tab and cmnd-tilde make the dock not needed IMO.
- oneeyedpigeon 5y agoI also rarely use the dock (unless I'm forced to — e.g. to navigate to the freakin' Trash/Bin folder) but that's separate to the point of applications staying open even when all their windows have been closed.
- prawn 5y agoWish the dock could be disabled completely. I have it set to the smallest size and hidden on the left side, but it still gets triggered occasionally. Having it standard size and chewing up space at the bottom of the screen seems insane to me - what a waste of screen real estate. Like you, I use Cmd-Tab to know what I have open (and you can obviously Cmd-Q while there to close apps) and Cmd-Space to open apps. I never use the Dock or the grid of icons view or any equivalent (not sure what they're even called).
- kevincox 5y agoI don't have a mac anymore to check but there was a magic pref that I set from the commandline to adjust the auto-show delay. I set it to something like 10s which made sure that it effectively never appeared by accident. If you really don't want it I assume you could set the delay to a couple of hours.
- prawn 5y agoThanks. I'll look that up. I used to have a setting tweaked so that the dock size was 1px or something like that. Trying both of these might help.