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Get old Dock menus in Snow Leopard

Prior to Snow Leopard if you clicked and held on an icon in the Dock you would get a menu with a bunch of options which varied dependent on the application. With Snow Leopard this behavior has changed. Now when you click and hold on a Dock icon you get the Expose look at the application windows.

If you want the old behavior back, it's still there. To get it you need to either right-click on the icon in the Dock, or hold down Control when you click. The menus that are shown have a new look, but they contain the old functionality.
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Categories: Mac Snow Leopard Dock shortcut
Added: on Sep 03, 2009 at 11:07 am
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: dock snow leopard mac shortcut

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You can also achieve this by entering the following command in the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Dock show-expose-menus -bool no;

then Killall Dock and you are all set..
– Added by an anonymous user on Oct 28, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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