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Dock on your macbook pro
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I rarely use the dock, so I hide it. Occasionally I use it for trash and access to my downloads folder. I do keep some utilities in the dock in case the computer has some problem and spotlight is failing me. But, that hasn't happened in over a year. Also, the dock is not so useful for me since it only shows up on one monitor; I have two external monitors and the laptop screen. In the end, I can't justify having it take up room.
My bad; I wasn't clear.
The dock only appears on a single screen; whenever my mouse briefly pauses at the bottom of a screen, the dock moves to that screen. Since the dock is never in a predictable place, I would find it awkward to count on it for regular use.
My dock is always visible, on the left side of the screen, and only contains running applications (plus Finder and Trash, of course).
I've been having this internal discussion ever since switching to Mac. For years I have had mainly default Mac Apps plus Word, Excel and PowerPoint as I use those daily for work. Recently I have been optimising my MacBook Pro 14" as more of a work computer so now I only pin Finder, Calendar, Notes, Music, Settings and MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It seems to fit my workflow better not being distracted by all the other default apps.
Usually I keep the Dock on the bottom and hidden but occasionally when I'm switching around within Apps I unhide it. Also when I do focus work sometimes I switch it to the right hand side of the screen, somehow feels more natural and less distracting to live over there. I also try to use full screen apps where possible but not always possible switching between spreadsheets and presentation slides.
Well, that's me. Not sure if I'm unique but I do find the Dock more distracting these days than I used to. I try and keep messages, mail and FaceTime for my iPad and iPhone only so don't need to pin those to the dock
Usually I keep the Dock on the bottom and hidden but occasionally when I'm switching around within Apps I unhide it. Also when I do focus work sometimes I switch it to the right hand side of the screen, somehow feels more natural and less distracting to live over there. I also try to use full screen apps where possible but not always possible switching between spreadsheets and presentation slides.
Well, that's me. Not sure if I'm unique but I do find the Dock more distracting these days than I used to. I try and keep messages, mail and FaceTime for my iPad and iPhone only so don't need to pin those to the dock
Pretty sure all I did was manually remove every app from the dock. I do have "Show indicators for open applications" toggled on in System Settings > Desktop & Dock, just as a visual confirmation that the app is running.