OSX Quick Tip: Hidden “Minimize To Dock” Animation in Mac OS X
Today’s Quick Tip comes from techpwn.
The dock animation “Suck” is hidden in OS X and can be activated with the terminal using this line…
defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect suck
Now just type “killall Dock” in your terminal and you will notice the new effect after your dock restarts.
Cool little dock hack.
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Comments
PeteBell
February 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Doesn’t work at all
j2d2
February 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Not working for me either.
Neil
February 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Yea, it doesn’t work
steven
February 12th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Did anyone try this before posting it? It doesn’t seem available to me either.
Michael
February 12th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
No, I’m an idiot and I didn’t try it before posting
This one is apparently a dud folks…it won’t happen again.
sorry.
Bertrand
February 12th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
works just fine, remember the dock process is called Dock
Capital ‘D’
it’s not the coolest effect but it definitely works.
Ashton Tibbitt
February 12th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
yeah… it worked for me..
just remember to make dock with a CAPITAL “D”
Michael
February 12th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Ha Ha! i’m not an idiot
I still should have tried it first… :p
Ashton Tibbitt
February 12th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
hey, is there any way to make this permanently accessable from the dock menu in system preferences???
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Ben
April 21st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
For those of you still frustrated, you have to type capital “Suck” for this to work, not the posted lowercase suck
SaltireDJ
July 8th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I wonder if people are finding this doesn’t work because they’re typing mineeffect instead of mineffect … just a though - ’cause that’s what *I* did (blush).
Monkey
September 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am
how do you get the old animation back?