Stacks mouseover effect

Sun, 2 March 2008

Here is a cool tip, thanks to Bill Ellis at OS X Daily. When you open a stack and move your mouse around, not much is happening, unless you click the icon. However, the command below will enable the mouseover effects on the stack items when in Grid view.

stacks mouseover

Open the Terminal and type (or copy and paste) this:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean yes (all in one line) and hit enter. Now restart the dock by typing killall Dock in the terminal window, and hit enter again.

If your stack doesn’t open in grid view, right-click on the stack icon in the Dock and select Grid view. Now, when you hover your mouse over the stack item, you will get a nice mouseover effect. Does it help? Maybe. Does it look cool? For sure.

Via: OS X Daily

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5 Responses to “Stacks mouseover effect”

  1. Asanka said: Sun, 2 March 2008 at 20:45

    I like how it follows the mouse… thanks for the tip!

  2. Nico said: Sun, 2 March 2008 at 21:32

    This can also be done with Onyx [http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html]. For people who are afraid of using the Terminal ;).

  3. maxintech said: Mon, 3 March 2008 at 06:39

    This can also be done with Onyx or Deeper or Secrets.
    You can open a stack with the mouse and then use the arrows to navigate the stack. It works in all modes (grid, fan and list).
    In grid mode the effect is the same that you has described; enabling the highlighting. In fan mode the effect has changed the colour, blue, and the texture.

  4. Joni said: Sat, 8 March 2008 at 01:00

    I like this tip. :) Thanks

  5. Steve said: Mon, 7 April 2008 at 19:30

    If once i would like to get rid of it how can i undoo it ? with the terminal.

    thanks a lot

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