TUAW Tip: Get rid of the Leopard Dock shelf

We already noted the controversy over the side-positioned Dock in Leopard and Apple's apparent response. This leaves untouched, however, the fact that many folks just don't like the new Dock glass shelf effect even when the Dock is at the bottom of the screen. And that brings us to the first TUAW Tip of the Leopard era; you can turn off the shelf with a simple terminal command as revealed above (full size picture -- the site that first revealed this trick has since gone down).

Not having Leopard yet myself, I can't confirm this, but this does appear to be a legitimate way of getting rid of the shelf. Now if somebody can discover a similar preference to make the menubar fully opaque everything will be set back to rights!

[via Daring Fireball]

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bill

Make your dock transparent - easy http://www.iknowthe.net/blog/transparent-dock-in-osx-leopard.html

November 10 2007 at 2:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jomi294

Can you get the actual Tiger dock back?
And not the new 2D Leopard dock... This would be very nice.

November 08 2007 at 9:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Macintosh Sauce

Check out all my new Dock graphics! Procedure to change them (for those that do not know how) on my blog...

http://www.jamesnrhodes.com/James_Nicholas_Rhodes/Weblog/Entries/2007/11/4_New_Mac_OS_X_10.5_Leopard_Dock_graphics!.html

November 04 2007 at 3:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonny1964

Seems to me that regardless of what design Apple comes up with for the dock, a core of people are going to complain.

I mean, one person above is criticising the fact that the flat version has rounded corners!

October 30 2007 at 5:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JAlfred

I really hope somebody makes an application to make it really transparent with just the icon/icon reflection/indicator showing. More of like what Transparent dock does. :) But im also digging the 2d dock alternative though.

October 30 2007 at 9:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John

Oh my gosh! I did this and now I don't know how to reverse it! HELLPP!!

October 29 2007 at 1:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ars_workerbee

Jaron asid:
| I also noticed during the actual installation process, regardless of machine type, that the menu bar is completely solid. It must be a preference somewhere. I haven't found it yet.

Its actually due to how the transparency is handled. The part of the system that handles the transparency isn't included in the limited environment of the installation disc.

October 26 2007 at 8:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jaron Brass

I should also add... this appears to have changed in 9A581 (the GM build). It was NOT like this in previous builds.

October 26 2007 at 5:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jaron Brass

Transparency in the Leopard menu bar is dictated by your graphics card. If the graphics card will NOT support Core Image/Quartz Extreme, your menu bar is solid, with zero transparency or reflections.

I upgraded a G4 Mac mini (Radeon 9200) to 10.5 earlier, and this was the first thing I noticed. The dock is glass, however.

I also noticed during the actual installation process, regardless of machine type, that the menu bar is completely solid. It must be a preference somewhere. I haven't found it yet.

October 26 2007 at 5:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adrian vG

I like the 3D dock and transparent menu...

October 26 2007 at 3:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply