Terminal Tips: Gradient highlights for Stacks

If you use Stacks like we do, then you probably love any additional hacks you can do to them. While this Terminal Tip provides no really useful features, it does provide you with some awesome eye candy for your Stacks. This hack gives you a mouse-over gradient (seen above on Terminal) in your Stacks; just open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities) and type in the following command:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES

After you type in the command, type "killall Dock" to restart the Dock. You will then see the gradient in your Stacks. To get rid of the gradient, just replace "YES" with "NO" in the command above.

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Juz

When I execute this, my Dock doesn't restart. Any clues on how to get it back without restarting?

To be fair, I have had this problem a few times in the past 6 months - Dock randomly dying, kills my dock and apple-tab application switching etc.
Thanks!

September 29 2008 at 5:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Phil B

I think it is a check box in Tinkertool, too.

September 18 2008 at 2:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Griffon

Hmm is there a way to to keep specific apps from showing? Otherwise half the window is just the apps that startup with login.

September 18 2008 at 2:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shunnabunich

Already knew about this from Secrets, but I kinda like how the gradient highlight changes its position, Core Animation-style. You can make it freak out when you spin the mouse pointer around fast. :D

September 18 2008 at 1:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hegyi

thx a lot!

September 18 2008 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hegyi

thx a lot!

September 18 2008 at 1:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Big John

Another day, another useful tip. Ignore the people that moan and complain in the comments!

September 18 2008 at 12:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jerry

Again!?!

September 18 2008 at 11:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh Monroe

You could simply recommend the Secrets pref-pane.
It provides a gui and online repository of all these tips.

September 18 2008 at 11:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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anton

josh -- sounds cool, where is this?

September 18 2008 at 11:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh Monroe

http://secrets.blacktree.com/

September 18 2008 at 11:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joachim

The same gradient is also visible by hitting the arrow keys to select an icon (after having opened the stack, no need to call 'defaults' in Terminal).

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