Dock Gone

Dock Gone 1.4

Keep the Dock out of your way until you need it

Dock Gone keeps the Mac OS X Dock out of your way so that it doesn’t interrupt your work.

While you can always hide the Dock without Dock Gone, it will reappear whenever you mouse over the edge of the screen, blocking whatever is below the cursor. And you can be sure it will happen at the worst possible time. Dock Gone prevents this by moving the Dock completely out of your way, effectively turning it off until you ask for it back.

More than one way to turn off a Dock:
Dock Gone gives you several ways to turn the Dock off.

• within the Dock Gone Preference Pane in System Preferences
• in a menu in the menu bar.
• using a global keyboard shortcut that you define.

Why turn off the Dock instead of just hiding it?
Since Mac OS X first appeared, users have had a love-hate relationship with the Dock and its auto-hide feature. While it’s beautiful and useful, there are times when it just gets in the way. Scrolling long documents, navigating long menus in web browsers, and dragging documents around the screen can all inadvertently trigger the Dock to appear exactly at the wrong time. If you move just a little too close to the edge of the screen, the Dock insists on reasserting itself whether it’s wanted or not. This gets old fast. Especially for users who like to get the most out of their screen real-estate, it happens way too often.

Dock Gone is the Leopard-compatible way to keep the Dock out of your way until you specifically ask for it. Press its hot key, and the Dock will disappear. Try all you want, you cannot get the Dock to appear when Dock Gone is active. Press the hot key again, and the Dock reappears in exactly the same place and with the same settings as you had before.

No more Terminal commands. No more Dock appearing when you’re scrolling through a long document. No more losing your old Dock settings.

Dock Gone will become your constant companion, and you'll come to expect the Dock to always behave as it does when you have Dock Gone installed, no matter what Mac you're using.

System Requirements:
Dock Gone requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later to run. It should work on any Macintosh that will support Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

What's new with Dock Gone 1.4
• Bouncing Icons will no longer appear in a Dock that's been turned off
• In Snow Leopard, the Dock was reappearing in Exposé. This has been fixed
• In Snow Leopard 10.6.5, the Dock would sometimes reappear after a switch between spaces. This has been fixed.
• Numerous under-the-hood improvements

Dock Gone is shareware
Development and support for Dock Gone comes from people like you who choose to register.

Dock Gone will regularly display a reminder asking you to register it until you have purchased a license.

If you have not registered Dock Gone after 15 days, then it will no longer work from the menu bar or via the keyboard shortcut.

A single user license costs $14.95.

You can register Dock Gone on our registration page.

Support
You can view Dock Gone’s manual online.

Contact
If you have a question, bug report, feature request, or anything else to say about Dock Gone, please use our feedback form.