[Love Calm Quiet]

Thanks, mdc & Ratm...

Those definitely ARE cool effects. th F-11 even gave me my first view of Safari "broken-mercury" effect* in scroll widget (mentioned in Safari threads).

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*Where there are multiple pieces of the scroll widget - like a shaken thermom

[sbjordal]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Control-click on an application in the dock, popping up the menu. Leave the menu there -- don't click again.

Now tap F10 (or your Expos� key) a whole buncha times.

When you're ready, click again to close the dock menu. Gaah!
Nice to leave a friend or colleague's Mac in that about-to-go-nuts state... (If you want to downright irritate them, do a bunch of shift-F10s while the dock menu is up)

I did this 30 times to myself...then found out that I could

1. Continue to watch quicktime trailers....and
2. Continue to read the forum pages in Safari using the scroll wheel...

Great Trick

[SSharon]

Are we out of tricks already????

[trusted_content]

Wow, Quartz is rockin'

Here's the carnage of the first trick on my iMac (click for big)

[bkb]

Nice!
Is there any way to get those dock tricks (invisible background & skewed to one side) to work without changing the theme?

[trusted_content]

Originally posted by bkb:
Nice!
Is there any way to get those dock tricks (invisible background & skewed to one side) to work without changing the theme?

Those are just the result of hidden options in Dock's plist. You don't need any themer to enable them, you just need to either hack the .plist yourself or use one of the many free programs that do it for you. I use Transparent Dock. It's nagware, but it's well worth the registration fee

[Numenor]

Any other ones people can think of?

[Eyenovation]

The B&W is Awesome! I can't wait to mess with a few friends.

[Simon]

Originally posted by trusted_content:
Those are just the result of hidden options in Dock's plist. You don't need any themer to enable them, you just need to either hack the .plist yourself or use one of the many free programs that do it for you.

I'd be interested to know where I can set a clear background.

I did a

Code:
me$ find /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app -name "*.plist" -print
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Info.plist
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/default.plist
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/DockMenus.plist/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/version.plist

Then I looked at the .plist files and tried to find something like a setting for the background color/opacity/etc. but couldn't find anything.

Does anybody here know which file and which sibling to edit? I'd rather do it by hand then buy a utility to do something as simple as this.

[Eyenovation]

http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_ht...09-01-01.shtml

Try this. Not sure if it works in Panther

[Simon]

Originally posted by Eyenovation:
http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_ht...09-01-01.shtml

Try this. Not sure if it works in Panther

Nope. Didn't work here (10.3.2).

[trusted_content]

Originally posted by Simon:
I'd be interested to know where I can set a clear background.

I did a

Code:
me$ find /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app -name "*.plist" -print
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Info.plist
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/default.plist
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/DockMenus.plist/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/version.plist

Then I looked at the .plist files and tried to find something like a setting for the background color/opacity/etc. but couldn't find anything.

Does anybody here know which file and which sibling to edit? I'd rather do it by hand then buy a utility to do something as simple as this.

Should've been more specific. I meant its Preferences plist, as in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist.

I can't find the parts about transparency there, but I can find the ones about pinning and various other hidden options.

And I would honestly suggest either TransparentDock or Tinkertool still, as they both do the job quite aptly and don't install anything anywhere.

[theolein]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Control-click on an application in the dock, popping up the menu. Leave the menu there -- don't click again.

Now tap F10 (or your Expos� key) a whole buncha times.

When you're ready, click again to close the dock menu. Gaah!
Nice to leave a friend or colleague's Mac in that about-to-go-nuts state... (If you want to downright irritate them, do a bunch of shift-F10s while the dock menu is up)

PIssed in my pants! That is so coollllll

[I WAS the One]

please... people.... bring new tricks... like the animation you get holding down three misterious keys.... ENJOY

[Truepop]

Originally posted by kovacs:
Wow great, works even better with F9

ha. here's a trick, with White on Black set I can see what your sig says.