Comments on: Secret Stack List View Mod

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:01:01 +0000

Nevermind, I just needed to change the YES part of the command to NO.

Now I’m back to normal list view.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:43:36 +0000

Hi Caleb, how do I reset the stack list view to Snow Leopards default? The command in this article worked fine for me but I’de like to get it back to normal.

By: Caleb Pike

Caleb Pike — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:56:09 +0000

Are you running Snow Leopard? I would restart then try again.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:09:02 +0000

I have tried this many times now and thing has changed why?

By: Loris

Loris — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:01:57 +0000

Thanks it worked fine for me except the list is white not black!

By: Aypeus

Aypeus — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:36:14 +0000

The problem was with the Terminal of mine, after restoring the file from my time machine it worked!

Thank you for your help!

By: Caleb (Author)

Caleb (Author) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:08:14 +0000

You are running Snow Leopard right?
You might also try just putting the following in:

defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES

Now hit enter. Next just type in:

killall Dock

and hit enter again. Does it work?

By: Aypeus

Aypeus — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:08:38 +0000

Can Terminal be run with other permissions or so? Doesn’t matter what I do write word for word or do a simple copy and paste, the commands are still unknown! :/ Maybe it’s just me? Thanks for the update though, I hope someone else gives this a try and report back!

By: Caleb (Author)

Caleb (Author) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:56:08 +0000

I re-entered it. Give it a shot, should work. Looks like it was all on one line but it should be two like so:

$ defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES
$ killall Dock

Just be careful you paste it correctly without space etc.
Thanks for letting me know!

By: Aypeus

Aypeus — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:09:45 +0000

“$ defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES$ killall Dock” is maybe incorrect? Because when copy this line and put it into Terminal an error message is all i get: “-bash: $: command not found”

Please update this post with the correct code for this magical list view mode!