Why it's better to put your dock on the right side of the screen

[enkrates]

It's a non issue really concerning the small amount of real estate vertically, just do whatever fit your preferences ... I just so used to having my dock at the bottom

[davidtiziu]

LOL Ubuntu!

[marco7centurion]

can't you autohide the dock? I'm just asking, I don't use MacOSX, I use various linux distros and pretty much every dock here has an autohide option, so i guess it's an option in the macos dock?

[phototristan]

@marco7centurion Of course you can but that's not as useful since you cannot see what is currently running as easily with it hidden.

[marco7centurion]

@phototristan oh! silly me! I'm accoustumed at using the dock exclusively as a launcher and having the windows showing in the taskbar as little icons that I forgot you guys use it as an all-in-one thing

[Kylemathews1]

up is the way to go, just use firefox and have the tabs not on the top if using firefox 4 and make it so it pops up when you move your cursor to the top

[wasopq]

you can hide the dock can't you

[aetRene]

Thank for the advice ! (:

[phototristan]

@aetRene You're welcome!

[chinchilla2302]

It's much more efficient, both when using a trackpad or mouse, to move down than extend your arm to the right (or left). It's more logical and accessible.

[phototristan]

@chinchilla2302 Disagree. It's way easier to move to the right or left then to move down.

[chinchilla2302]

@phototristan Well, that's preference. I've kept the dock at the bottom since 10.0, and old habits die hard, I suppose.

[chinchilla2302]

@phototristan Well, that's preference. I've kept the dock at the bottom since 10.0, and old habits die hard, I suppose.

[up0]

I do this on Firefox (tabs on the right using add-on) and Windows machine as well. IT saves tons of space by having it on the right. Also mouse travels less. However, I haven't done this on my Mac yet. Great tip, though.

[rubbermuck]

I wasn't even aware this was possible, and you made a good argument, I'll try it

[phototristan]

Yeah, once you get used to it, it's great!

[rubbermuck]

I do run into the problem of having it on the right side of my right screen when using 2 monitors, so that's not the most convenient.

[NixKah]

i just autohide it on the bottom, keeping the desktop completely clean

[phototristan]

That still takes up room on the bottom when you show it though.

[NixKah]

but that doesn't affect the size of other stuff, plus the time i show it is when i want to look at it rather then the rest of screen

[phototristan]

It's still better on the side so you can easily see what applications are running and any other status alerts that appear in the dock, without moving your mouse or clicking/hovering anything at all.