• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Remove the Delay For the Dock To Pop Up

    I recently started hiding my Dock. I haven’t done that in over a decade, but I was ready for a change. But I’m not the most patient person in the world and waiting for the Dock to pop back up became a bit of a drag. So I looked around in com.apple.Dock and found an autohide-delay option. Setting that to -float 0 restored some sanity back into an already hectic enough world: defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 Then restart the Dock: killall Dock When you kill the Dock, it’s gonna’ reopen all the stuff you might have minimized down there. Well, this was close, but then this turned out…