25 6 / 2010

Neat Little OSX Trick

One thing that I do frequently on OSX is hide applications. You can do this easily from the keyboard, with command-h. To get a visual reminder from the dock about which applications you have running, but are hidden enter the following into the command prompt: 

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES 


and follow that up by restarting the dock:

killall Dock

That will restart your dock, and when it does, hidden programs will have transparent icons in the dock! Neat!