TUAW Tip: Put a Recent items Stack in your Dock

wiiittttt...

please keep us all updated about your efforts with the folder icon...i'd really love this feature and it'd be great if i could get it to sync up with the look of my other stacks.

cheers

This trick worked great for me and is a nice addition to the doc. However, I am experiencing some strange behavior w/ the stack...there are several extra desktop folder icons in the stack and I cannot get them to go away. Any thoughts as to 1) what may be causing this and 2) how to correct the problem would be appreciated.

-s

Excellent!!!

so I attempted this did what they say used the terminal comand and then killall dock now my dock is gone and i dont know how to get it back i tried repairing perissions but still no go. Help :( please

great tip!

Um, Stacks are found in the Dock, not in the Toolbar


Here's another brilliant tip by way of Mac OSX Hints. It turns out that you can actually put a "Recent Items" Stack in your toolbar with a couple of terminal command.

this really is brilliant. i was trying to do this with a saved search folder, but it would only display it as a folder in the dock and not like how the downloads stack works. i don't miss the curved stack though since my dock is on the left and all stacks are displayed that way by default. between the downloads stack and this, i think this is the first time the dock has become actually useful for me. cool.

yea i tried to edit the hell out of the string with no luck...my only thoughts are since it does not treat it like a folder, maybe there is a way to add the recent items as links in a folder and then add the folder to the dock...thats what im working on now

@3: No, because it makes a System call (In simpler words, it isn't a folder per sé)
And you can't use it as a fan, no matter how hard you edit the string... at least I couldn't, and I almost trashed my dock.

Now, can you put a drawer icon over it?