Q: Dock not responding to mouse.
My dock has quit responding to my mouse. I have corrected it in System Preferences several times, when I "Choose" the Desk Size Arrow, it will come out onto the desktop but when i move the mouse off the arrow it goes back into hiding and will not respond. I've used Disk Utility for Priviliges verify and Disk verify, I have tried Genie and Scale effect, (I like Genie), nothing works, it hides or if I choose it, it stays on the desktop but it will not move in and out of hiding. Any help will be greately appreciated.
I have checked, unchecked, and rechecked the Annimate... and Automate... buttons to no avail.
eMac, 1GHz PowerPC, OSX10.4.11, 768G DRAM, Wireless Connection.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), G5 79G 2G-Ram
Posted on Jun 10, 2011 12:39 PM
"there is no com.apple.dock.plist in my Library/Preferences"
There are two locations with similar names;
YourUserAccountName/Library/Preferences where the dock preference file resides (or should reside), and
Library/Preferences where it will not be found. That location is for system-wide preferences compared to your Dock's personal setting.
Regardless, the suggestion didn't work.
Your new information is helpful. If hot corners don't work either ( if they have been selected to do so) note that this behavior is similar to showing and hiding the dock by moving the mouse off the bottom of the screen. This suggest something is not aware of the mouse.
Is the mouse you are using still the original technology of being wired to the keyboard? If yes, then;
log into your guest account, and see how the dock operates there.
Does your Dock / Expose activate correctly with mouse movements? (You will have to create those settings in the guest account, before testing them)
If things seem correct in that account, logging back into yours, there will likely be some other preference file that has become corrupted.
If it is misbehaving the same on the guest account, then maybe the problem is with the mouse hardware.
I wish I could be more specific.
Posted on Jun 11, 2011 5:56 AM