Problem in hiding apps

[3mors]

Hi,
when i hide an application on jaguar, it disappears normally, but the icon on the dock remains the same without any trasparency.

Do u know why?

 

[KKJ]

I'm not entirely sure but I think that's just a setting in TinkerTool - not in Mac OS X itself (at least not in the GUI part of it).

You can probably download it at versiontracker.com.

 

[Rhino_G3]

Yep, that is the way it's supposed to be. you can change the plist file for the dock and edit it to show transparent icons. When I get home for lunch I'll check it out and see what you have to add

 

[twister]

TransparentDock (i think that's the right app) will do this for you. I like the transparent hidden icons also.

Twister

 

[3mors]

Sorry, but i hav dl no application to modify my os.
I like mac os x as it is.

I hav done no changes to my dock.

So?

 

[3mors]

I saw on other macs with Jaguar and I remember that on my OS X 10.1.5 when i hide an app, the icon on the dock becomes quite transparent.

Is it so?

 

[Rhino_G3]

add these two lines to your com.apple.dock plist file, near the bottom

<key>showhidden</key>
<true/>

I added it 8 lines from the bottom after the last <'/array> tag
I now have transparent icons when hidden

 

[3mors]

Thanx Rhino, but ...

I opened this file and there r a lot of tags. Can u "quote" the part in which I hav to put the command?

Thank you

 

[Tigger]

Try this in your Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock showhidden 1

More on that here:
http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1322

It seems that the option for showforeground has been removed somewhere in 10.1 or so, this option showed the triangle beneath the active app blue or something like that.

 

[3mors]

I try to type:

defaults write com.apple.dock showidden 1

and also

defaults write com.apple.dock showidden 0

but after logout/login the hidden app icons remains the same =(

 

[3mors]

Oke men I've done.
I read the thread reported by griffman.
I've done in this way:

defaults write com.apple.dock showforeground -boolean YES
defaults write com.apple.dock showhidden -boolean YES

Thanx.

 

[Rhino_G3]

Originally posted by 3mors
Thanx Rhino, but ...

I opened this file and there r a lot of tags. Can u "quote" the part in which I hav to put the command?

Thank you

Sorry about that... I completely forgot that the forum would parse those tags when I posted it.

If there's anybody else wondering what to add this is what you would add after the final <'/array> tag...

<'key>showhidden<'/key>
<'true/>

Without the singe quotes of course