How to highlight items in the OS X Dock Stacks Grid view

This very brief tutorial will show you how to enable a useful feature in Grid view of Dock item stacks. Why it’s disabled by default is beyond me, as it’s actually quite useful.

1. As you can see from the image below, item/folder names are truncated in Grid view, making it (sometimes) difficult to determine which file/folder is which.


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2. Start by opening a terminal and pasting in the following line:

   defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hlite-stack -boolean YES

   and then enter:

   killall Dock


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3. Now when you open a Grid stack, and mouse-over an item with a truncated name, the full thing will be displayed.


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