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Ancient Reflection Desktop [Featured Desktop] | That Soviet Guy — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:44:04 +0000

[...] the dock, you need to make it transparent. Here are some instructions for manual modification, but if you’re running OS X 10.5 or earlier—yes, 10.5 or earlier, so not 10.6—you [...]

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[...] the dock, you need to make it transparent. Here are some instructions for manual modification, but if you’re running OS X 10.5 or earlier—yes, 10.5 or earlier, so not 10.6—you can use [...]

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Ancient Reflection Desktop | Lifehacker Australia — Sat, 28 May 2011 03:22:25 +0000

[...] the dock, you need to make it transparent. Here are some instructions for manual modification, but if you’re running OS X 10.5 or earlier — yes, 10.5 or earlier, so not 10.6 — [...]

Di: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:21:10 +0000

I followed your instructions to get rid of the reflection in my dock. How do I get it back? Thanks. Cool site.

Di: shorty

shorty — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:50:54 +0000

thank you so much! great help and looks great!!

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LEOPARD TRANSPARENT DOCK — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:28:03 +0000

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Di: devon

devon — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:09:17 +0000

@El.20
I had that too, that bar is made by your web browser’s reflection. Your problem is reflection is still on.

@Andrew
That white line is because the folder that was posted for those files was a little off. Make a copy of bottom1.png and rename it to replace bottom5.png.

this entire strategy is incomplete until someone figures out how to change the gray background of the flat style dock to transparent.

Di: El.20

El.20 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:21:36 +0000

Put a capital letter to the D of dock Adam.
I have done what you said itomi but i still have a piece of my ancient dock.
I have a screenshot.

http://img10.hostingpics.net/pics/315645Capture_d_ecran_2010_02_09_a_21.17.41.png

In fact that reflect a piece of my application. You can see Steve Job’s top of head in my dock.

Di: Adam

Adam — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:59:34 +0000

When i write: killall dock it says: No matching processes belonging to you were found. What shall i do?

Di: itomi

itomi — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:51:16 +0000

Sure Andrew, just type back the same in the terminal with “NO” at the end

Di: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:11:07 +0000

HEy, is there any way to get this back to normal after the [defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES] is typed into terminal… the bottom files didnt work completely and i still have a white line on the right side of my dock

Di: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:10:48 +0000

Di: Jojo

Jojo — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:21:03 +0000

hey there, thanks for this… but i have a problem.
now my dock is gone. (after killall Dock, it never came back)
the only way i can get it to appear is by clicking the ‘dock’ icon in system/library/coreservices… then i get a wonky icon in my dock which is ‘not responding’…
i seem to have accidentally deleted my original backup files…
can i fix this?

Di: itomi

itomi — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:40:48 +0000

Links now fixed! sorry.

Di: andr3w

andr3w — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:01:10 +0000

the download links for the files seem to be dead, can you please fix
them

thx
-andr3w

Di: Stefanie

Stefanie — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:28:50 +0000

Hi
This method worked until I tried to get rid of the reflection. It got rid of it, but left the yucky border..and when I did the procedure to get rid of the border..it started to screw up. I currently have the bordered dock but it’s not completely transparent and is a different shade than everything else and it looks ugly. I did back up the original files and deleted everything and replaced it with the old in hopes of getting it back to normal, but it’s not working! Please help me!

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Di: spidey

spidey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:23:48 +0000

hola itomi,
molto con calma ho visto questa modifica,
sono riuscito anch’io a farla funzionare senza richiedere aiuto al mio guru (itomi)
ora puoi considerarla super testata =

man

Di: Shoki

Shoki — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:52:11 +0000

Thanks for the post!! worked like a charm!

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clear dock with no reflections - Mac-Forums.com — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:08:19 +0000

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Di: FameGadget

FameGadget — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:03:01 +0000

wow, I have tried, it’s pretty cool

Di: Bill

Bill — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:42:48 +0000

I did the defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES and dont really like i. How do I change it back to the reflection?

Di: metacym

metacym — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:59:03 +0000

anyone ever come up with a way to keep the dock 3D while on the sides of the monitor?

Di: itomi

itomi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:29:08 +0000

@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..

Di: shakir

shakir — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:35:07 +0000

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?

Di: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:23:26 +0000

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

Di: David

David — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:41:45 +0000

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.

Di: mario

mario — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:46:39 +0000

@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

Di: Ansar

Ansar — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:30:14 +0000

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

Di: itomi

itomi — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:31:55 +0000

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

Di: Miles

Miles — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:15:58 +0000

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

Di: Miles

Miles — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:02:31 +0000

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!

Di: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:19:41 +0000

Ok ! Thanks for you answer, great job anyway

Di: itomi

itomi — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:11:17 +0000

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

Di: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:49:21 +0000

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 ?

Di: Micah

Micah — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:24:45 +0000

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

Di: itomi

itomi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:39:53 +0000

@Bob: I know the feeling thanks

Di: itomi

itomi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:38:37 +0000

@ 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.

Di: Bob

Bob — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:00:27 +0000

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

Di: Micah

Micah — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:47:30 +0000

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

Di: itomi

itomi — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:21:25 +0000

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

Di: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:24:31 +0000

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.

Di: itomi

itomi — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:08:28 +0000

@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.

Di: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:24:52 +0000

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?

Di: ron cooper

ron cooper — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:18:15 +0000

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.??

Di: hello1

hello1 — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:10:23 +0000

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

in DISK UTILITY

Di: itomi

itomi — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:14:42 +0000

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

Di: Michael

Michael — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:55:28 +0000

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

Is this possible?

Di: itomi

itomi — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:32:33 +0000

@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)

Di: Michael

Michael — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:24:14 +0000

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

Di: Darren

Darren — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:39:44 +0000

Fantastic!

Di: nathan

nathan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:13:06 +0000

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

Di: itomi

itomi — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:22:58 +0000

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

Di: miggy

miggy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:32:12 +0000

how will i put it back to normal

Di: itomi

itomi — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:21:59 +0000

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

Di: adam

adam — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:08:42 +0000

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

Di: François

François — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:42:30 +0000

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

Di: François

François — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:33:32 +0000

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

Di: itomi

itomi — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:44:16 +0000

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

Di: François

François — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:42:06 +0000

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

Di: Antonio Moro

Antonio Moro — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:37:23 +0000

@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

Di: cawe

cawe — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:40:46 +0000

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

Di: itomi

itomi — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:47:45 +0000

Thanks Takaaki

Di: Takaaki

Takaaki — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:33:34 +0000

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 !

Di: itomi

itomi — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:37:01 +0000

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

Di: Takaaki

Takaaki — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:28:15 +0000

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 .

Di: itomi

itomi — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:10:37 +0000

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.

Di: juliaen

juliaen — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:21:57 +0000

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

Di: itomi

itomi — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:16:21 +0000

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.

Di: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:08:36 +0000

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

Thanks for clarifying this.

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