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Show bigger text and icons on the Mac Stacks

If you are using the Stacks list view on your Dock in Snow Leopard, there's a new option you can invoke that changes the way the Stack is displayed. The icons and text get a lot bigger, so they are a lot easier to read, and the behavior of Folders is different too.

If you want to try this out, open a terminal window and run these two commands:

defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES
killall Dock

Your Dock will this restart and you'll have the new bigger icons and text. I really like this new option. If you decide you don't want this, you can re-run the command and change the YES to NO.

Here's how it looks in this mode:

Rating: 100% positive, 1 Vote
Categories: Mac Snow Leopard Dock hack
Added: on Sep 24, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: mac dock snow leopard text

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THis is a great one. It's a lot easier to read the text with this changed.
– Added by an anonymous user on Sep 25, 2009 at 2:53 pm
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