Improving Snow Leopard Dock Lists

Just for future reference until I have a tech blog again, and because it the dock and lists look better this way.

Add Highlight on Roll-over to Dock Context Menus

This simple but very useful addition highly improves the usability and contrast of the context menus in Snow Leopard. All you need to do is use a simple command in Terminal.app.

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

Nicer Lists Display in Dock

The display of the docks stacks can also be improved with a nicer list view with only one command to use in Terminal.app.

defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES && killall Dock

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If now I hadn’t been the massive cock I usually am on Monday mornings I would have uploaded a screencap with both tricks combined. See it for yourself instead after having applied both tweaks.