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Turn off the Dock for Good?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bay Area, CA, USA
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Is there a way to permanently disable the dock?
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2001
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delete dock.app in /system/library/CoreServices
that ought to do it 
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smile like you mean it.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Riverside IL, USA
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You could also replace it with another app (like DragThing) by renaming it "dock.app" and copying it into /system/library/CoreServices so that it overwrites the old app.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
-- Frederick Douglass, 1857
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bay Area, CA, USA
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I wish there were a way to do it per user...
I share my machine and I want the dock to be disabled for only my account.
arggg
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Austin, MN, USA
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You could write an AppleScript which could use the command line to kill the Dock when you log in. I suggest an AppleScript instead of a shell script because it can be easily run as a login item for your user only.
The trick is keeping the Dock from relaunching. I'm not sure how to get around that little problem. It's a starting point though.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Originally posted by dtc:
<STRONG>I wish there were a way to do it per user...
I share my machine and I want the dock to be disabled for only my account.
arggg</STRONG>
just an idea, no guarantee whatsoever: play around with the groups and the execution privileges of dock.app; no idea what that leads to...
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: London, UK
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This should be do-able from a loginPlugin. I might have a go later, might not. Note that if the dock isn't running you won't be able to minimize windows, so you might like to use WindowShade X (the unsanity haxie).
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Portland, OR
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I found your posting rather late. I hated the dock at first, but discovered the automatically hide dock option and now I like it. I keep it on the left side, where I don't accidentally hit it when scrolling.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Paris, France
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Originally posted by iBabo:
<STRONG>delete dock.app in /system/library/CoreServices
that ought to do it </STRONG>
LOL 
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