Geek Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/mac-dock-spacer.jpg" alt="mac dock spacer" title="mac dock spacer" width="417" height="71" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11839" /></p> <p>You can add blank spacers to the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> Dock by issuing a defaults write command in the Terminal, you can see the effect in the screenshot above with the space between the Firefox icon and iChat icon.</p> <p>To get a spacer paste the following command into the Terminal:</p> <p><code style="font-size:0.9em;">defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}'</code></p> <p>You then must kill and relaunch the Dock to have the spacers appear, you can do this with the following command:</p> <p><code>killall Dock</code></p> <p>If you want multiple spacers, just issue the defaults write command the same number of times. Instead of repasting the command, you can do this by hitting the “Up” arrow on your keyboard within the Terminal to bring up the previously executed commands, just hit UP until you see the defaults write string and then hit return again.</p> <p>The Dock spacers can be moved by simply dragging them around the Dock like any other icon. Likewise, you can remove the spacers by simply dragging them out of the Dock.</p> <p>Thanks for the tip TJ!</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pBbLkt7cak6ZRj5vBK4JIdG73sw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pBbLkt7cak6ZRj5vBK4JIdG73sw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pBbLkt7cak6ZRj5vBK4JIdG73sw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/pBbLkt7cak6ZRj5vBK4JIdG73sw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOZ8-Q9gQt0:RviOC7DtIvc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOZ8-Q9gQt0:RviOC7DtIvc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=UOZ8-Q9gQt0:RviOC7DtIvc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOZ8-Q9gQt0:RviOC7DtIvc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=UOZ8-Q9gQt0:RviOC7DtIvc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOZ8-Q9gQt0:RviOC7DtIvc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=UOZ8-Q9gQt0:RviOC7DtIvc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/UOZ8-Q9gQt0" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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