Dock Overlaps

[Charles Martin]

> From: Anne Keller-Smith <earthpigz at earthlink.net>
> What's up with this? If the dock's at the bottom, I can't access the 
> resize
> corner
> because it covers it. If it's on the left side, it overlaps the top 
> menu
> bar a bit.
> If it's on the right, it covers folder labels.
>
> Where's a good place for the dock?

That's a personal preference. I prefer it on the bottom, because of the 
following trick. Maybe it also works with Docks that are on the sides, 
I've never tried it.

When you have an app that overlaps the Dock, try this: press 
shift-command-D, then press it again (this will cause the dock to hide, 
and then come back). Most OS X-savvy apps will "snap" their windows to 
allow room for the Dock if you do this.

_Chas_

"Executives in the PC business use the word "sexy", in such a way that 
I'm always surprised to discover that their children aren't adopted. 
The Mac interface is not "sexy", and it would be grotesque to want it 
to be. It is, in fact, playful, often well over the line into 
frivolity. The bouncing icons (and the puffs of smoke and the 
pipe-organ speech synthesizer and the way dialogs tidily resize and the 
drop-shadows on the windows and the jellybean buttons and the eject key 
on the keyboard) are not individually rationalizable on utilitarian 
grounds, and they do not pretend they mean to be. They are there to, in 
aggregate, change the nature of your relationship with the device. They 
are joyful, and they hope their joy is infectious." -- Glenn McDonald