Disable bouncing Dock notifications
On the Mac when an application wants to get your attention, it will sometimes start bouncing the icon in the Dock... very vigorously. It's kind of annoying. Especially when you want to ignore a notification. If you want, there is a preference you can set at the command line that turns off this behavior. The application can still notify you of things by popping up a new panel, but the bounciness of the Dock will no longer happen.
To set this open a terminal window and enter this command:
You then need to either restart your computer, or restart the Dock for the change to take effect. You can quickly restart your dock by entering this command on the command line in the terminal:
Once the Dock restarts, you'll no longer have bouncy Dock icons when an application is trying to alert you. Some things to note about this:
- This will not affect the bouncing that occurs when an application starts.
- You can reverse this and get the bouncy behavior back by repeating the first command and changing the TRUE to FALSE.
To set this open a terminal window and enter this command:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE
You then need to either restart your computer, or restart the Dock for the change to take effect. You can quickly restart your dock by entering this command on the command line in the terminal:
killall Dock
Once the Dock restarts, you'll no longer have bouncy Dock icons when an application is trying to alert you. Some things to note about this:
- This will not affect the bouncing that occurs when an application starts.
- You can reverse this and get the bouncy behavior back by repeating the first command and changing the TRUE to FALSE.
| Rating: | 100% positive, 2 total Votes |
| Categories: | Dock Mac notifications |
| Added: | on Jan 23, 2009 at 10:18 am |
| Added By: | an anonymous user |
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