Mac OS X Dock customisation

If you are not familiar with Mac OS X Terminal commands, then you may be unaware of the flexibility it gives you.

For a start, one of my favourite things to do is to change the way the Dock works. I'm going to show you two different yet really cool things you can do with the Mac Dock.

Add a separator to the Dock

This is a real nifty trick that helps separate icons on the Dock so that there is a better structure. I'm still surprised that Apple does not include an easy way to use this feature in the Apple Menu.

So here are the Terminal commands:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'
killall Dock

Lock the Dock

To me locking the Dock on Mac OS is a necessary feature. This again is completed via the Terminal. This can be achieved using the following commands:

defaults write com.apple.Dock contents-immutable -bool yes
killall Dock