Re: Dock Delay

On 2025-05-28 01:33:29 +0000, André G. Isaak said:

I currently have my Mac set to automatically show/hide the dock, since that frees up a few centimeters of screen space for other tasks.
 Problem is, there's a handful of applications which I use which involve a horizontal scroll bar. Unfortunately, when I try to drag the horizontal scroll bar in these apps, half the time the dock reappears and I end up inadvertently rearranging items on the dock rather than scrolling as intended. [My dock is on the bottom of the screen].
 Is there a global setting that can be invoked which delays the dock from showing up for a second or two when the mouse hits the bottom of the screen?
 [n.b. I am still using Monterey, but I assume any such setting would probably be available on all Macs].
 André

I'm not sure if they still work in Monterey, but try these Terminal commands:
   defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float NUM
   killall Dock
and /or
   defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-time-modifier -float NUM
   killall Dock
replacing NUM with how many seconds you want the delay to be (e.g. 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, etc.)
One of the 'hidden settings' utility apps like Tinker Tool, Onyx, etc. may be able to do the same thing.
BUT, it's probably a better idea to simply make the window's vertical size to be slightly smaller. Making the Dock delay bigger will just annoy you when you do want the Dock to reappear.
The other option is to move the Dock to be on the left or right of the screen, instead of at the bottom.