Mac OS X

Dock Highlighting

You click on an icon in the dock that brings up a grid of the items in the list and then you click on one of the items in that list. But I like the way the rest of the dock operates, where I know what I’m moused over (is moused the verb of mousy?). And I sometimes click on the wrong one, which is why it’s nice to highlight one. To do so, run this command:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean yes

And then:

killall Dock

To go back to the way things were before:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean no

And then:

killall Dock