Transparent Icons for Hidden Applications
This is a great tip for all mac users who rely on the Hide/Unhide Application feature on the mac. This tip allows you enable a hidden feature of the dock which shows hidden applications as semi-transparent, allowing you to quickly identify which applications are hidden and which are shown with a simple glance at the dock. Here’s a couple of screenshots to show you what it looks like (click for a larger image).
As you can see, this can be very useful when you have a lot of applications open at the same time. To set your dock to appear this way, open Terminal (~/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and paste these two lines:
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
killall Dock
If at any time you would like to revert to Apple’s default setting paste these two lines:
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool NO
killall Dock
I saw this great tip on MacTips.org (by AppleGazette.com). For this and other great Mac Tips, visit their site.
Mike Farmer said,
Wrote on September 2, 2008 @ 7:32 am
Very nice. Thanks!