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If you move the Leopard dock to the side of the screen you get a dock with a gray background rather than the glassy surface. If you want that dock on the bottom of the screen as well, simply run the following: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES killall Dock This sets a hidden default on the Dock and then forces it to restart.
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Any way of getting the glass on the side? even if it might look strange?
Um, any way to get rid of it? Just running
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO
killall Dock
doesn’t. Should I just remove this line from com.apple.dock? This’ll teach me to hack what I can’t unhack…
Well, I just up-arrowed and entered it again, and it worked. Weird. Yes, I remembered to hit Enter and everything, but it still came up no-glass.
Well, independent verification (ahem…) confirms that running
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO
killall Dock
DOES in fact reverse the effects of the above no-glassing code. Derrrrrr…