OSX hacking

Posted by nuxi on 2009-Dec-13 at 04:14:08 in Computers (Login to reply)

The VBox 3.1 changelog noted something about disabling the dock on OSX. So I did some googling, eventually found a shareware app that could also do it. I reverse engineered that and found these:

defaults write com.apple.dock orientation -string bottom
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string end
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -float 1e-17

Why would I pay $14.95 for that?

For the curious the legitimate values for those keys are:

defaults write com.apple.dock orientation -string [left|bottom|right]
defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string [start|middle|end]
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool [true|false]
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -integer [1-256]

The OSX Preferences GUI only allows tilesizes from 16 to 128 and doesn't allow setting the pinning value.