Feb 27, 2008

No More 3D Dock

Although the most recent update to Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.2) gave users the ability to control some of the UI features that didn’t catch on in the past few months, Apple did not add anything to turn off the 3D Dock. Fortunately, achieving this is just a line of Terminal command away.

2d

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES (return)
killall Dock (return)

If you decided this look is not for you, it is very simple to go back to the 3D dock.

3d

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO (return)
killall Dock (return)

2 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. aaron

    How about no dock? just the icons?

    Mar 27th, 2008

  2. Clay Carson

    There is a program called ClearDock that worked for OS X Tiger but is not yet Leopard compatible. That is the only real way I know of.

    Mar 27th, 2008

Reply to “No More 3D Dock”