When you say to put the download into the original location, what IS the original location?

Thanks for clarifying this.

the folder where there was the files you deleted.. as described in steps 1-3.
You’re just replacing the old files (deleted) with the new one (downloaded) in that directory.

Hope I’ve clarified that now.. don’t esitate to ask if you need more help.

Ok seems to work fine when Dock is place at Bottom of screen, BUT NOT when placed on either left or right hand sides!!!!!
Any idea why? Solutions?
Thank you,
J

there’s problably other images for the left and right versions of the dock.. I think you can replace them with appropriate images as already done.

dear Itomi ,

I saw your idea at Flickr and try to do that …. looks like it works but I still see some dock base …. like semi transaprent bar .

I did delete all files you mentioned and replaced downloaded one …. Did I do something wrong or do you have any idea ???

Please help .

My files are not completely transparent, there’s like a 5% black on the background.. if you want the dock completely transparent you need to edit my images and clear all, they need to be just transparent images

Thank you , my dock has some problem before thats why I could not do transparent but now I fix it .. Thank you ! By the way , your bussiness card is great !

Thanks Takaaki

Hi Itomi,

may do you have any idea what i have to do to edit your files to get a transparent one? What files shoud i edit? The contents of noreflections- or the transparentdock ZIP`s?

You`ve make a really great work, perhaps is it possible that you update the ZIP`s to get a transparent Dock without borders and reflections…? I Think that many User are very thankful about this-;)

Kindly regards

Carsten

@Cawe

just download this zip:
http://www.itomizer.com/download/leotrasparentdock.zip

and use the files that are in the “0%” folder instead of the one into the “10%” one.
Those files are completeley transparent.

enjoy

Hello Itomi,

Thank you very much for the files + how to.
Works perfectly : my dock is now transparent with no reflections !

One question remains : All the icons are now surrended by an half-transparent grey rectangle. Is it possible not to have this grey ?

Best Regards,

François

François I didn’t understand this grey rectangle you’re talking about.. can you link a screenshot?

Itomi,

Thank you for your answer. You’ll find bellow a picture of my dock :

/Users/ark/Desktop/mynewdock.jpg

Perhaps you know how to remove the grey rectangle surrounding all the apps icons ?

Best Regards,

François

Oups ! It seems I don’t know how to link a screenshot in a post.
Could you please go to :

http://www.francoischarpentier.fr/

I’ve put the sceenshot directly on my home page.
Best Regards,

François

you sir are a genious. thank you very much

now if you can figure out how to get the finder bar black for me i would be in your debt

eheh thank you adam

for the finder bar.. you can leave it transparent and add a black bar at the top of the desktop wallpaper.. it will not be black.. but at least dark

how will i put it back to normal

@miggy just re-do the procedure with your backupped files instead of the one you dowloaded here.

This works great! Thanks for your work. I miss ClearDock, since it’s only for Tiger, but with your method at least I get to do a bit of tinkering

Fantastic!

Itomi.

Well done! having used Transparent Dock and Clear Dock yours works great. Still thinking of losing the mirror look but will enjoy what I have for now.

Can you do the same for the tool bar on top of the desktop screen?

Kind Regards

Michael

@Michael: you can disable the translucent Menu Bar in the “Desktop & Screen Saver” section of the System Preferences: there’s a check box at the bottom of the “Desktop” tab. This has been included with the last OS update (10.5.2)

Thanks itomi, but I wanted it completely gone so all you see is the icons and text.

Is this possible?

I don’t think that’s possible Michael.. sorry

just thought i mention might be a good to REPAIR PERMISSIONS after you modify the files

in DISK UTILITY

The transparent dock does not work on my G5 osx 10.5.3

Why?

I have done the procedure 6 times.

It worked on my MacBook Pro.??

R

Not that I plan on changing back to the original dock, but if I ever wanted to, do I just replace the files you made with the originals again? Also, does using your dock instructions cause “Dock Remove.command” to appear in Finder>Macintosh HD?

@Ron: I really don’t know.. that’s weird

@Ryan: yes, just backup the original files and replace em again. And no, that “Dock Remove.command” file is not generated by this method.

Itomi, when I replace the five files with my original pieces and use the terminal command my dock still stays transparent. Have any ideas how to get the dock back to looking like it did originally? Transparent is nice but now I would like to put it back the way it was…. hmm. Any thoughts.

have you disable the no-reflection? use this command:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO

then kill the dock to restart it

I got the dock to be clear but when I run the non reflection code (defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES) to make the reflection of the application icons go away, the dock turns to a dark grey box, is this correct? I just want the dock to be completely clear with no reflections from the application icons. Thanks in advance

Thanks for doing this. The tasteless stock Leopard dock forced me to learn something about the inner workings of the OS, and you have been a good teacher. And using you method, I also modified the indicator files for better visibility. Kind of reminds me of the old RezEdit days. A nice feeling to take back some control.

Appreciatively,

Bob

@ Micah: Use the set of graphics I’ve created to replace the default grey of the system, just follow the process described in the post.

@Bob: I know the feeling thanks

great! thanks, I hated that ugly dock from day one, great job.

Hey ! Thanks for the dock and the tutorial ! Really helpful.

But I still have an issue : I want to enable the no-reflection thing, but when I enter the code line defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES, and kill the dock, it just switches it to the 2D dock Tiger Style.

I want to keep the 3D dock with no reflection, how’s that possible ? I’ve also entered defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO but none of these two codes work to disable dock reflections.

Any clue ?

@Thomas: no sorry it’s not possible you can’t have the 3D dock without the reflections

Ok ! Thanks for you answer, great job anyway

Firstly this is great! thanks! Apart from one thing….
As posted by Bob in a previous post, I too am applying the no reflection command but it is leaving me with a dark grey box behind the icons. I have replaced the files bottom1-5.png with the files supplied by your good self, but to no result I even opened the file in photoshop and gav them each a 25% white fill and this resulted in a thick white border being displayed, but the dark grey back ground remained… Do you, or anyone know specifically which png file makes up the background behind the icons of the dock?
Thanks for a great tutorial though!

sorry it wasn’t bob, it was micah and francois who habe previously mentioned it…

@Miles: I haven’t find a way to clear the backgroud too.. sorry..

ok so I got the dock to go away and then i tried the no reflection procedure and now for some reason, behind my dock is just original black box (without the scurve.png files) and my computer wont let me delete the new bottom.png files. So i cant even go back to the original setting and try the whole thing again.
Any suggestions? :S

P.s.not sure if this will help or confuse the matter but, the resources file has 4 of the new bottom.png files and one of the original ones (bottom4.png is the original one)

Please help :S

@ansar did you backup the original images? copy them back then reverse the command line:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO

as other readers have said, this doesn’t seem to work. i get the side background with no border when i use the no reflection. make sure you backup files. it doesn’t work correctly on leopard 10.5.4

This works perfectly if the dock is on the bottom, but I like mine on the left. Someone else had this problem earlier…If you could post some files or instructions on making the dock transparent on the left/right that would be wonderful. thanks much.

I found that if you use the following commands in Terminal instead of the manual file copy then the new dock works.

sudo cp scurve-l.png /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/

sudo cp scurve-m.png /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/

killall Dock

actually, i stumbled into your tutorial because i was searching for a solution. my dock became transparent by itself(actually semi transparent) exactly like your pictures. i know it’s a long shot but do u know y this could happen?

@Shakir: have you used applications like Candybar that tweaks the system? maybe that’s why.. There’s also a lot of applications that tweaks the new dock..