Comments on: No more bounce! Damn ye, Mac dock!

Question: No more bounce! Damn ye, Mac dock!

grumblebee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:42:45 -0800

Does anyone know a way to stop icons from bouncing on the OS X doc? I'm NOT talking about unchecking "animate opening applications" in the dock preferences. That only stops opening-app bounces. I want to stop warning bounces, too. They drive me crazy. Please note that I'm using an INTEL Mac (Leopard). I've only been able to find solutions for PowerPC Macs.

By: mpls2

mpls2 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:52:50 -0800

Dock Detox

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:52:54 -0800

Open Applications > Utilities > Terminal and type the following:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool true

Press Return. Log out and log back in, or reboot.

If you need to revert this setting, just do the same process and type:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool false

By: mpls2

mpls2 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:53:27 -0800

oops... that's not intel-compatible

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:54:38 -0800

Note that Dock Detox does not work with Intel Macs. Even if it did, it requires Application Enhancer, a piece of shit software that is probably the cause of more instability on Macs than anything in the history of Mac OS X.

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:30:16 -0800

Bless you, Blazencock Pileon! Now I don't need to switch back to a PC.

By: momocrome

momocrome — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:43:39 -0800

hey what happened to my comment?

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:58:06 -0800

momocrome, I wasn't offended by your comment. But one of the mods probably removed it, because instead of answering my question, you suggested I switch to a PC.

By: momocrome

momocrome — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:48:16 -0800

i didn't even know there were mods here (newb). thanks for the response.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:20:05 -0800

If you're interested in other ways to customize your Dock, open the Terminal and type:

defaults read com.apple.dock

This will list all the modifiable options, including the no-bouncing option.