Dock freezes

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Leonis

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I have couple of dock freezes lately.

Mostly when one of the classic apps quits and then I want to relaunch it by clicking the icon on the dock the dock just freezes. The mouse cursor still moves but I can't do anything. I have to force restart the machine.

Anyone knows how to 'force quit' the dock?
 
There are a couple of ways to do this. You can include a CMM for quitting the Dock as one of the options in the transparent-dock hack. Or a simple Applescript will do it as well. There are even a couple of "applications" available on versiontracker.com that do just this task (although it seems a tad pretentious to use the term "application" for a function that can be done by Applescript).
 
This is probably one of the simplest Applescripts around. Just open Script Editor and type:
Tell application Dock to quit.
Then save your script, and run it whenever necessary.
 
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