Mac users can streamline their OS X Dock to show only the apps that are active in memory with a quick terminal trick. It means, you can able to customize your dock to show whatever apps you’d like, but if you’re using the dock as a quick way of navigating between open apps. If anyone is not aware of about how to show only active apps in OS X dock then just simply follow the steps given below :
How to show only active apps in OS X Dock :
- Initially open the terminal on you Mac OS X.
- Type default write com.apple.dock static-only – bool TRUE ; Killall dock and press return. Even you can copy this command and paste it on your terminal.
- Once you type this command you can see the screen change momentarily as the dock app is restarted.
- After the command is typed on your terminal then Exit out the terminal. Now you can see the dock as below in the below picture, all the active apps will be under the dock.
- If you ever want to restore the mac to its original state, open the terminal again and type defaults write com.apple.dock static-only- bool false; kill all dock.
- That’s it this is how you can show only active applications in OS X Dock.
