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How to permanently stop Dock icons from bouncing

June 10, 2009 by Ross McKillop 

Even if you’ve set your Dock preferences not to animate when you click them, some applications insist on bouncing to get your attention. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that behavior.

  1. If you open your System Preferences and select Dock, you can disable the animation (bouncing) that happens when you click an icon in your Dock. Just remove the check from the box labeled Animate opening applications.

  2. But sometimes applications are set to “bounce” when they want your attention.

  3. To disable this feature, open a Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and enter the following commands:

    defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE
    and then
    killall Dock

  4. Your Dock will close, then open again. From now on, none of your Dock icons will bounce - ever.
  5. If at any point you want to reverse this, just enter the command:

    defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool FALSE
    and then
    killall Dock

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5 Responses to “How to permanently stop Dock icons from bouncing”

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  2. Glen on June 10th, 2009 3:13 pm

    That dock theme looks great! I’m hoping it’s applied with CandyBar - if so, could you post a link to it?

    Thanks for the tip!

  3. Ross McKillop on June 10th, 2009 4:34 pm

    Glen -

    I used SuperDocker (http://www.superdocker.com/) which is free, and it’s the (included) “2D Dock in 3D” theme.

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