Clear Dock

cubedude

How can I make the background of my Dock transparent? I've tried ClearDock and TransparentDock, but with no success.

paul

are you sure you are installing them correctly?

ibrowse

With ClearDock you have to have Application Enhancer from Unsanity installed, and you set the Dock's colors etc. from the APE preference pane in System Preferences.

cubedude

Yeah, I know about have APE installed. There isn't much to installing TransparentDock is there? I thought you just had to drag it to the desktop or apps folder.

giaguara

the unsanity thing have the readmes that tell where to put the haxies. if i remember right they went to something like Library/Application Support/



if they are not in the right place they don't work.

ibrowse

Kind of, ClearDock has to be in /Library/Application Enhancers

kenneth

No problem for me... may be you need to restart the Dock.

paul

is there any way to just change tho ACTIVE application's triangle color?

ibrowse

I don't think so, since the Dock doesn't really pay attention to which application is in front. Example, if you click the Finder icon to switch to Finder, it opens a new Finder window regardless if you were already in Finder or another app. It would be cool though. In TinkerTool, you can set the Dock to use faded icons for apps that are hidden, it's not the same, but it could be useful.



Doesn't clicking apply in the Preferences for ClearDock automatcally reset/relaunch the Dock anyway?

paul

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Originally posted by iBrowse

I don't think so, since the Dock doesn't really pay attention to which application is in front. Example, if you click the Finder icon to switch to Finder, it opens a new Finder window regardless if you were already in Finder or another app. It would be cool though. In TinkerTool, you can set the Dock to use faded icons for apps that are hidden, it's not the same, but it could be useful.

yeah i use that tinker too feature as well



oh well...