Re: Dock Delay

On 2025-05-29 00:05:05 +0000, André G. Isaak said:

On 2025-05-28 00:00, Your Name wrote:

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:
 Â  defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float NUM
  killall Dock

 That doesn't appear to work, so it might be restricted to more recent versions of the system. I may see if I can get used to having the dock on the left as others have suggested. So far I'm not that fond of this suggestion since the dock icons are significantly smaller, but maybe I'll get used to it.
 Also, I'm glad to see there are still people on this group talking about macOS as opposed to iOS, which is really off topic.
 André

There is a third possible Terminal command:
    defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -float NUM
    killall Dock
You may or may not also need to put "-bool true" in those commands, just after the setting name.
e.g. defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -bool true -float NUM
     defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -bool true -float NUM
     defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true -float NUM
     killall Dock
Someone on the StackExchange topic says autohide-time-modfier works in Monterey.
<https://superuser.com/questions/222715/is-it-possible-to-change-the-delay-before-the-dock-appears-in-os-x-on-mac> Unfortunately Apple does keep changing such things in each new release and update.  :-(
You should still be able to increase the size of the Dock (and hence the icons) when it is on the sides ... although, if you have lots of icons in the dock, then it of course has to be smaller to fit them all in.
You could always get a display screen that rotates to portrait, then the sides would be longer then the bottom edge.  ;-)