Add Spaces Between Dock Icons

Are you tired of searching for applications in the jumbled mess of icons on your Dock? Get organized by adding spaces in the Dock to divide application icons into groups — not only does it look really cool, but it will make your life so much easier.

The simplest way to insert spaces between groups of icons is to use a Terminal Command. Each time you enter the command, it inserts a blank “space” into the Dock, which you can treat like any other icon in the Dock. So if you want four spaces, enter the command four times.

Start by opening Terminal — found in Application/Utilities — and then enter this line:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’

In order to see the changes, you have to restart the Dock by entering the following command in the Terminal:

Killall Dock

The spaces appear at the end of the icons that are in the Dock. Treat them like any other icon — grab and drag them around to wherever you want. If you added too many spaces and want to delete one, simply drag it off the Dock or right click on the empty space and select ‘Remove from Dock.’

Easy, right?

Morgan Merritt

www.MyTechTool.com