This is a website by Willem van Zyl

I'm a project manager, software developer, Apple evangelist and geek from South Africa. I'm passionate about web and mobile application development, usability, productivity, physics, astronomy, science fiction and fantasy.

If you would like to contact me, message me on Twitter or send me an email.

How to add a Recent Items stack to the Dock on Mac OS X

02 Sep 2009

Mac OS X stacks usually list the contents of specified folders, but the Dock has a hidden Recent Items Stack feature for Applications, Documents, Servers, and Volumes.

To enable the Recent Items Stack, open a new Terminal window and enter the command below:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

... then right-click on the new Stack to choose which information to display.

To revert the change, right-click (or control-click) on the Recent Items Stack and choose the "Remove from Dock" option.

Do you like this? Share it:

Copyright © Geekology 2011. All Rights Reserved.

Hosted by Code. Like. Clockwork.