Putting Dock On Top (tiger)

Hey guys, this is mackheads101, and as you can see, I have my MacBook running Tiger. I have the dock on the top, and so now I'm going to be demonstrating how to do this using Tiger. You cannot do this in Leopard because in Leopard they did, they'll put the command top, but they defined it as the bottom. So even if you do it, like if your dock's on the side and you run these commands in terminal, it'll put it on the bottom.

So first thing you're going to need to do is open up Terminal. Well, first I'm going to put the dock back on the bottom so you can see how to do this. Now I'm going to open up Terminal, and there's just two commands to do this—or three, depending on which way you're doing it. But the last command isn't very hard.

So the first thing you're going to type is the command: defaults write com.apple.dock orientation spelled O-R-I-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N space -string top. Then you can just press enter.

You can either type out this another line of code or you can just press the up arrow, which will bring the last line of code you wrote and replace the word orientation with pinning. What it does is first, the line of the first line of code orientates it to the top, and the second one pins it to the top.

So you can just press the up arrow and then replace orientation with pinning. Hold on, P-I-N-N-I-N-G, and then you can press enter. Now you're going to restart your dock.

The dock is actually an application, an application in OS X. So you can either open Activity Monitor, which shows every application opening—not just these ones, but every single application—or you can kill the application dock. So I'm just going to kill that by typing killall dock with a capital D.

Now my dock's gonna restart and appear at the top. Now, if you do this, it's going to be hard to get windows if they're back there, and you might not be able to access the toolbar depending on your laptop.

So, if you want to hide it, the command is Apple option (or alt) and D, and that'll just hide it. If it is hidden, they didn't make it so you can find it. So if you put your mouse there or there or at the bottom, you'll never be able to find it.

So if you want to get it back, you can either just put it back at the bottom by doing the Apple dock position on right, left, or bottom, or you can just press Apple option D and unhide it.

So, there you go! That was a quick tutorial on how to hide your dock and how to put your dock on the top in Tiger. I hope this helped for you. If you're a Tiger fan and Leopard, and you're watching this, then you still learned a few things.

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