How to get back Leopard Dock in Mavericks?

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How to get back Leopard Dock in Mavericks?

I'm just so fascinated with the look of Leopard's Dock and overall design of large and small details of its graphics that I would like MUCH to customize my Mavericks to look like Leopard OS. Particularly I'm crazy about reverting to its Dock appearance. I found some info on Internet about use of Terminal commands that seemed to be very useful and interesting (and yes, I'm the one of those who don't fear Terminal), however nothing on how to use it to get back Leopard's Dock. Could you, please, give me a list of commands that will do the job?

Waiting kindly to hear from you,

Best wishes

I.S.

OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), MacBook Pro 15.4 " mid-2012

Posted on Dec 30, 2014 4:35 PM

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Answer 1

tommy61d

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Dec 30, 2014 5:54 PM in response to scrutinizer82

scrutinizer,

To get the desired desktop go to - system preferences>Desktop & Screensaver>Nature and you will find the same desktop you've shown me.

To get the dock you want go to - system preferences>Dock and you fill find your dock settings. I've provided my screen shot to show you the settings.

Happy Computing 🙂

Tommy

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scrutinizer82 Author

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Dec 30, 2014 4:51 PM in response to scrutinizer82

I need to get this:

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babowa

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Dec 30, 2014 7:18 PM in response to scrutinizer82

The dock appearance was changed and I have not heard of a way to resurrect the Leopard "look". As the dock is an integral part of the OS, I'm not sure that a hack would be something I would feel comfortable with. Actually, the Yosemite dock appearance seems to be a bit more Leopard like than mavericks.

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scrutinizer82 Author

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Dec 31, 2014 2:31 AM in response to tommy61d

These are the standard settings that are somewhat limited to several very basic options. However, I know that it's not as much about hack as about hidden opportunities that are sorta intended to use for "Advanced Users" and so I'm 100% there have to be Terminal commands that can customize whatever you wish on a Mac, including the look of Dock. I'm just trying to figure out what these commands are.

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Eric Root

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Dec 31, 2014 10:00 AM in response to scrutinizer82

Here are some. I haven't tried these with Mavericks though, so do a backup before doing anything.

Dock 2D: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean yes;killall Dock no shelf

Dock 3D: defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean yes;killall Dock shelf

Dock - more transparent: defaults write com.apple.dock hide-mirror -bool true;killall Dock

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scrutinizer82 Author

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Dec 31, 2014 5:58 PM in response to Eric Root

Thank you greatly, Eric Root! As of now I haven't tried your commands yet but I definitely will a bit later. Just would like to know in advance what are the ones that revert back to Mavericks' Dock?

Kindest regards and HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND OTHERS! 🙂🙂

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scrutinizer82 Author

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Jan 1, 2015 8:21 AM in response to Eric Root

What if I replace Dock.app of Mavericks with that of Leopard's combo update? Just my wild guess, but in order to try I have to prevent completely Dock.app from running, perhaps via Terminal? What do you think? Would this solve my problem?

I came across one Terminal command(