Tag: dockutil
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Use docklib to manage macOS docks
docklib instead of dockutil I have a few posts about using dockutil to manage the macOS dock. dockutil is still a valid and working project, but I’m starting to migrate my scripts to docklib instead. Installing docklib The installation instructions for docklib say you can put the docklib.py file in the same directory as the…
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Updating MS Office dock icons from 2011 to 2016 using dockutil
Managing client machines while also giving your users freedom to customize their machines as they want can be a bit tricky. On the one hand, you want to automate things as much as possible so users don’t have to be bothered with too many update prompts and other maintenance nuisances. On the other hand, you…
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Putting Dockutil add/removes in arrays in Bash
Most of the time when you see scripts using Dockutil to add and/or remove items from the Dock in Mac OS X, they look like this: /usr/local/bin/dockutil –add ‘/Applications/NAMEOFAPP1.app’ –no-restart /usr/local/bin/dockutil –add ‘/Applications/NAMEOFAPP2.app’ –no-restart /usr/local/bin/dockutil –add ‘/Applications/NAMEOFAPP3.app’ –no-restart /usr/local/bin/dockutil –add ‘/Applications/NAMEOFAPP4.app’ –no-restart /usr/local/bin/dockutil –add ‘/Applications/NAMEOFAPP5.app’ –no-restart /usr/local/bin/dockutil –add ‘/Applications/NAMEOFAPP6.app’ –no-restart /usr/local/bin/dockutil –add ‘/Applications/NAMEOFAPP7.app’ –no-restart That’s…
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Using Dockutil with Outset to set user Docks on a Mac
Many people will find Dock Master a good tool to distributing docks to users. If you would prefer to use Dockutil with Outset and a login-once (or login-every) script, you may run into this issue: Items are added but not always removed Workaround #1 kcrawford (developer of Dockutil) has a workaround for this: # Wait…