Nov 27

Gradient on mouse-over in Stacks.

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I tested this in Leopard (10.5.8) but it should work with Snow Leopard (10.6.x). Please comment telling me if it does work in 10.6.x.

In Terminal, type the following

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES;killall Dock;killall Terminal

Terminal will close, and your Dock will flash. Open a stack, and you now have a gradient when you mouse over an icon.

I know it’s old. Just thought I would post it here. Also, to reverse it, copy and paste the same code, but replace YES with NO.

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written by colbyludwig

10 Responses to “Gradient on mouse-over in Stacks.”

  1. James Says:
    November 27th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    very handy, and I don’t think we’ve covered this one before… thanks for joining up, feel free to add any more neat tricks you find!

  2. Bob Says:
    November 27th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    It doesn’t seem to work in 10.6.2. The dock goes down and then back up, but it doesn’t work…

  3. Masato Says:
    November 27th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    It doesn’t work on 10.6.2.

  4. Carl Says:
    November 28th, 2009 at 12:13 am

    Works like a charm in 10.6.2 when you spell it properly/differently:

    defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean YES;killall Dock;killall Terminal

    Note “hilite” vs “hilte”. I’m not sure if hilte works in 10.5.8 or if this was a typo, either way.

  5. digital_dreamer Says:
    November 28th, 2009 at 3:06 am

    Note that you can get the same affect by holding down the mouse prior to moving into the folder’s contents.

    MAJ

  6. manda Says:
    November 28th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    +1 for carl

    10.6.2 it’s “hilite” and it does work

  7. frannbug Says:
    November 29th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    Great! But what would be even better would be if the highlight colour could be the same as the label colour so all these identical folders can be distinguished from one other easily. Anyone know how to do that in terminal? And even better, to increase the number of labels and add my own colours to them?

    Seems the labels are only grudgingly provided in OSX – do a search on them and almost all you find is stuff about address labels. Yet they were very useful in OS9 and you’d think they might have been developed a bit since then. I’d love to have tastefully coloured folders (to my own choice of colours) which retained their colours in the dock.

  8. augwell Says:
    March 27th, 2010 at 3:20 am

    +10 for Carl. The spelling is crucial. I couldn’t get it to work via 12 other website’s tips. The H I L I T E instead of H I L T E is required!
    Kinda makes me wonder if the devs didn’t have a typo…

  9. ultimo Says:
    May 17th, 2010 at 4:28 am

    The tip works AS IT IS on 10.5.8
    I shall however do wht Carl said for ze 10.6.x whn I get it :)

    btw, it makes it look AWESOME, so Thanks :)

  10. Robin Kanters Says:
    June 12th, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    @ultimo Still running leopard? Get Snow Leopard for 29$ xD

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