Change Leopards Dock Appearence from 3D to 2D

Advanced, Article, Dock, Leopard 10.5, Mac OS X, Terminal | May 20th, 2008

Don’t like Leopard’s new 3D dock look? Sure, you can just move the dock to the left or right side of the screen, but if you like it on the bottom then your sol, right? Wrong, this quick tutorial will show you the key to enlightenment….well, for your dock at least!

Your dock currently looks something like this

You would like it to look something like this

1. Launch Terminal and enter the following defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
2. Relaunch the Dock by entering in killall Dock

Behold it’s 2D beauty! Should you decide to switch back, enter the above commands but replace YES with NO.