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Dock Gone keeps the Mac OS X Dock out of your way so that it doesn't interrupt your work.
While you can always hide the Dock without Dock Gone, it will reappear whenever you mouse over the edge of the screen, blocking whatever is below the cursor. And you can be sure it will happen at the worst possible time. Dock Gone prevents this by moving the Dock completely out of your way, effectively turning it off until you ask for it back.
More than one way to turn off a Dock: Dock Gone gives you several ways to turn the Dock off.
While you can always hide the Dock without Dock Gone, it will reappear whenever you mouse over the edge of the screen, blocking whatever is below the cursor. And you can be sure it will happen at the worst possible time. Dock Gone prevents this by moving the Dock completely out of your way, effectively turning it off until you ask for it back.
More than one way to turn off a Dock: Dock Gone gives you several ways to turn the Dock off.
- within the Dock Gone Preference
What's New
Version 1.4:
- Bouncing Icons will no longer appear in a Dock that's been turned off
- In Snow Leopard, the Dock was reappearing in Exposé. This has been fixed
- In Snow Leopard 10.6.5, the Dock would sometimes reappear after a switch between spaces. This has been fixed.
- Numerous under-the-hood improvements
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later.
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Dock Gone keeps the Mac OS X Dock out of your way so that it doesn't interrupt your work.
While you can always hide the Dock without Dock Gone, it will reappear whenever you mouse over the edge of the screen, blocking whatever is below the cursor. And you can be sure it will happen at the worst possible time. Dock Gone prevents this by moving the Dock completely out of your way, effectively turning it off until you ask for it back.
More than one way to turn off a Dock: Dock Gone gives you several ways to turn the Dock off.
Dock Gone is the Leopard-compatible way to keep the Dock out of your way until you specifically ask for it. Press its hot key, and the Dock will disappear. Try all you want, you cannot get the Dock to appear when Dock Gone is active. Press the hot key again, and the Dock reappears in exactly the same place and with the same settings as you had before.
No more Terminal commands. No more Dock appearing when you're scrolling through a long document. No more losing your old Dock settings.
Dock Gone will become your constant companion, and you'll come to expect the Dock to always behave as it does when you have Dock Gone installed, no matter what Mac you're using.
While you can always hide the Dock without Dock Gone, it will reappear whenever you mouse over the edge of the screen, blocking whatever is below the cursor. And you can be sure it will happen at the worst possible time. Dock Gone prevents this by moving the Dock completely out of your way, effectively turning it off until you ask for it back.
More than one way to turn off a Dock: Dock Gone gives you several ways to turn the Dock off.
- within the Dock Gone Preference Pane in System Preferences
- in a menu in the menu bar
- using a global keyboard shortcut that you define
Dock Gone is the Leopard-compatible way to keep the Dock out of your way until you specifically ask for it. Press its hot key, and the Dock will disappear. Try all you want, you cannot get the Dock to appear when Dock Gone is active. Press the hot key again, and the Dock reappears in exactly the same place and with the same settings as you had before.
No more Terminal commands. No more Dock appearing when you're scrolling through a long document. No more losing your old Dock settings.
Dock Gone will become your constant companion, and you'll come to expect the Dock to always behave as it does when you have Dock Gone installed, no matter what Mac you're using.
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accountclosed reviewed on 30 Jan 2012
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Musubana reviewed on 10 Mar 2010
If you rely a lot on widgets, you'd better stay away from Dock Gone.
(Widgets are a part of my workflow.)
DG restarts the dashboard every time the dock status is changed.
This really annoys me.
Furthermore, sometimes the dock isn't realy gone - point to the bottom middle of the screen, and you'll see a tiny micro-dock so small that the individual icons can't be discerned. But nonetheless - it's there.
I sent a refund request to Kagi, but have got no reply (or money!) so far.
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Dameian reviewed on 19 Jan 2010
I've combined Dock Gone with LaunchBar to create a very minimalist and unobtrusive version of OS X that stays out of my way until I need it. Dock Gone keeps the dock out of my work space and LaunchBar makes everything on my Mac (and the Internet for that matter) just a couple of keystrokes away.
Cheers!
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F451 reviewed on 25 May 2009
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tofic reviewed on 10 May 2009
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Noriker reviewed on 06 May 2009
1. I can still call/hide the Dock just as used to, nothing new to learn. Only this time it stays away, as it should.
2. I can replace the standard shortcut or add an additional one, so the old mode (auto activating Dock) is still available at the same time.
3. Some older applications (DockBlock etc.) were built for Tiger and don't work anymore. This works under Leopard.
4. Other methods of getting rid of the Dock also kill functions like the Application Switcher. No such problems with Dock Gone.
5. By triple clicking the item in the menu bar, the Dock shows/hides. By single clicking the item, you get a menu.
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It might also pop up when you open a drop down window, such as your list of bookmaks in a browser, as soon as you get close enough to the edge. In this case it will pop up BEHIND the window, completely useless. And who needs the Dock to show up below the cursor while drawing a selection in Photoshop? Most people never use their entire screen and leave some space for the Dock. Given how huge the standard Leopard Dock is, that's a lot of space. This tool allows you to use the entire screen and hardly ever use the Dock. I use Quicksilver to launch apps, so I don't have much need for it.
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i've been using Dock Block http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13261/dockblock for years to get rid of the dock although its performance in leopard is a bit flakey so i searched and found http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27841/dock-spaces which is more user configurable and free!
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Dana Sutton reviewed on 04 May 2009
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It really keeps me from swearing at times when I'm nervously tweaking fullscreen applications on stage such as Ableton Live and Modul8. Those are the times when you really don't want the Dock to pop-up, believe me!
I'm experiencing a weird issue though.
The background process (DockGoneBG) only appears to start as soon as I enter Dock Gone's Preference Pane, but fails to automatically start at login.
Can't say whether this appeared in the last Mac OS X update, but I think I had the same problem with 10.6.2...
MBP5,2 running Mac OS X.6.3... and... Quite a lot of login items? (this shouldn't be a cause for DG not to launch tough).
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It doesn't slow it down or anything, just gets it started... you could right an applescript to launch it and just run that manually or put it in the login items but that's the same amount of work as going into the preferences pane so that solution is useless. Hope that helps.
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Tlance rated on 20 Sep 2011