Jun 21, 2009
Disable Leopard’s 3D Glass Dock
I’ve never been a big fan of the Leopard 3D glass dock effect, preferring the 2D dock effect that you see if you place the dock on the sides of your screen. While I personally keep my dock on the left side of the screen, you can get the same 2D effect at the bottom of your screen using a fairly simple terminal command.
Just open your Terminal app (located in Applications:Utilities), then paste in the following command and hit enter:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
Your dock will exit and reopen in 2D mode, as shown in the image below.
To disable the 2D effect, simply paste the same command into Terminal, replacing “YES” with “NO”.
