#macos

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  • Mar 26, 2019

    Speed up MacOS Dock auto-hide

    Yesterday I joined a new company, and as you might expect, the first task given to me was to setup my dev environment. Aside from installing all the important dev tools I wanted to make my dock auto-hide to save me some space on my desktop. This however reminded me of a classic MacOS problem - the damn thing takes forever to open:

    An image showing a very slow animation of opening MacOS dock

    As life is too short to wait for a dock to open I run the following commands:

    defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.15
killall Dock

    and this is what I got:

    An image showing a much faster animation of MacOS dock

    Side note: in case you want to revert these settings run following commands:

    defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay
defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier
killall Dock