Moving Dock in OS X

Thu, 21 December 2006

If you are working in a program that takes lots of screen real estate, and the Dock gets in the way, you come to the point when you wish the dock wasn’t there.

Yes, you can go for Cmnd-Option-D to hide it, but maybe you still need it for some reason. So the other solution is to move it to the right or the left edge of your screen. To do this, you open the System preferences, go to Dock settings and select where you want to position it.

But there is a better way of doing this. As simple as it may be, a few OS X users might have not heard about it before.

Move your mouse pointer to the Dock divider, next to your trash can. Press Shift key on your keyboard, then click with your mouse on the divider and drag it to the right. Your Dock will nicely move to the right edge of the screen. Or left, if you prefer.

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