'Recent Applications' Stack on Mac OS X Leopard.

braz2kuk · 11 Mar 2008 at 18:19

Hi,

Found this, i found it useful thought i wold post it on here to see if anyone else does, this piece of code places a stack on your dock called 'Recent Applications'

1) Open Terminal
2) Enter the following code: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
3) enter: killall Dock
4) You should now have 'Recent Apps' in your dock

Hope someone finds it useful

iSam · 11 Mar 2008 at 18:22

Can this be adapted for recent documents?

braz2kuk · 11 Mar 2008 at 18:23

Yes when added into the dock right click the stack and you can select from 'Documents' 'Apps' 'Servers' etc...

iSam · 11 Mar 2008 at 18:24

Smashing, thanks!

SentineL-X · 11 Mar 2008 at 18:35

That's really really useful!

Thanks for that!

Will_3rd · 11 Mar 2008 at 19:32

Wow that is pretty neat, thanks!

RoleyBirkin · 27 Mar 2008 at 19:55

Very good. But how can I get the stack to show as a list, not grid?

Deleted member 651465 · 27 Mar 2008 at 22:06

Seraph said:
Very good. But how can I get the stack to show as a list, not grid?

Right-Click on the stack in the dock, then choose "View content as List" :cool:

RoleyBirkin · 27 Mar 2008 at 22:47

That's what I thought, but option not in the list!?

Deleted member 651465 · 27 Mar 2008 at 22:56

Do you have 10.5.2?

RoleyBirkin · 27 Mar 2008 at 23:11

Certainly have.

There's 3 'recent' choices, 2 'favourite' and remove from dock options, in the right click pop up.

Rameses · 27 Mar 2008 at 23:15

Excellent!

Thank You!

Deleted member 651465 · 28 Mar 2008 at 08:55

Seraph said:
Certainly have.

There's 3 'recent' choices, 2 'favourite' and remove from dock options, in the right click pop up.

Ah right, I know why now.. didn't twig before because it was late

In the original Terminal command you typed, change the following;

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

Now, I haven't got access to OS X as this second, but it should be a case of experimenting with the number (in this case 1).

I'd try changing it to -1, 0, 2 or 3 and see what happens.

RoleyBirkin · 28 Mar 2008 at 09:39

Not seeming to make any difference?

kvfb97 · 28 Mar 2008 at 10:05

Very handy. Thanks!

LordSplodge · 28 Mar 2008 at 10:40

I just get a black space on my Dock that does nothing. Hmmm

RoleyBirkin · 29 Mar 2008 at 17:35

Any ideas braz2kuk ? or anyone!

braz2kuk · 30 Mar 2008 at 11:30

Regarding changing it to a list as supposed to a grid, i have been trying for a good forty minutes now cannot seem to get it to work, my only guess is that because the recent apps stack is not a folder it does not have the same behaviours with it being a system call. I will keep trying but im not sure i can be done....

Regarding what 'LordSplodge' said about it not showing up, just check your syntax for spaces and code errors, i am on the same os version as you so i cannot see why it wold not work.

braz2kuk · 30 Mar 2008 at 11:34

Also if anyone has any problems with the dock after running this command, & a reboot doesn't fix it, remove the com.apple.dock.plist file from Users/YourName/Library/Preferences, restart. You'll loose any custom Dock settings or icons but it'll at least get your Dock back.

Hope this helps someone.

RoleyBirkin · 17 Feb 2009 at 12:52

Is there a way of having TWO of these in the dock?

'Recent Applications' Stack on Mac OS X Leopard.

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