Thank you to everyone who helped me with resolving this issue. I used
Jim's terminal commands and now the icons stay nicely in the dock. Even
better, they don't even leave the dock if they are dragged. For the
life of me I still can't understand why this isn't a checkbox in the
dock's prefer
Here at our elementary school teachers have discussed the desirability
of being able to lock the dock. Students accidentally drag the icons
out... or discover it is fun to make them disappear. I have found that
running a secondary user account with "Modify Dock" permissions "off"
is almost mo
On Jan 11, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Derek Bump wrote:
The reason I would like to lock the items in the dock is because a
customer of mine would REALLY benefit from it. He's an older man,
and with his arthritis, he has problems with clicking and
dragging. When he intends to click once (such as o
Ken Ray wrote:
> Not that I know of, AFAIK to do something like that would require a
> third party launcher (or build your own), and then hide the Dock. But
> it it does make me curious - why would you want to lock the Dock?
Not a bad idea at all. Create my own dock that prevents adding/removing
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:55:41 -0600, Derek Bump wrote:
I need the ability to lock the icons in the Dock in Leopard.
Something that will now allow the user to add/remove icons from it.
Anyone know of anything?
I'm not running Leopard here (I'm away from my machine that has Leopard)
but this w
Try this:
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html
under "Restricted Dock"
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle.
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:55:41 -0600, Derek Bump wrote:
> I need the ability to lock the icons in the Dock in Leopard.
> Something that will now allow the user to add/remove icons from it.
> Anyone know of anything?
Not that I know of, AFAIK to do something like that would require a
third part
I need the ability to lock the icons in the Dock in Leopard. Something
that will now allow the user to add/remove icons from it. Anyone know
of anything?
Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com
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