> The only benefit I see to keeping the Dock (as if we had a choice) >is its ability to hold minimized windows. Minimized windows are a kludge if you ask me. I use windowshade to get them out of the way briefly, and I use CodeTek VirtualDesktop (which I can not praise high enough; I would have bought it at 3 or 4 times the $20 it costs) so I keep all my windows open all the time, and still not be bothered by them when I don't want them. >I am sorry to hear that bouncing icons are still visible. My >Internet Explorer icon continually bounces for no reason at all, >often when it has no active window. open Yes, well. That's what you get for using MicroSoft. >I presume TinkerTool has proven to be stable and well-behaved for >you, so I'll give it a try. Very stable. No problems that I noticed in many months. -- Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu> tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/