technicalpickles / technicalpickles/dotfiles
Clear out Dock except for running applications
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- Dominant language
- Shell
- Stars
- 25
- Forks
- 6
- Avg merge
- 20h 54m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 20
Description
https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/unlock-the-macos-docks-hidden-secrets-in-terminal/
defaults write com.apple.dock static-only -bool true; killall Dock
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the repository's macOS setup entry point and checking how shell defaults are applied; done means the Dock is configured to show only running applications.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, shell
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100