Changing "show-recents" to 0, for Dock with Terminal does change the code but doesn't apply it.

Römu wrote:

Hey there

I'm trying to make some scripts which I can execute on BigSur Macs to make installation time faster and one of the points I want to automate is removing show-recents.

I tried:

defaults write com.apple.Dock show-recents 0

When I check it with

defaults read com.apple.Dock

I can see that the value of "show-recents" changed to "0"

But in the Dock I can still see it.

I also tried

killall Dock

and restarting the device but to no prevail.

Thanks for the help!

To make what installation faster...?

I hardly see the correlation, maybe I am missing something. I have never heard of this...I do not have Recents in my Dock(?)

If you think this your way forward you can try —

defaults write com.apple.dock show-recents -bool FALSE && killall Dock