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

Why it's better to put your dock on the side of the screen rather than on the bottom

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Howto & Style

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• dock
• on
• side
• screen
• mac
• apple
• osx
• windows
• monitor

[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.

[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.

[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]

@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

[chinchilla2302]

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