macOS – How to Change the Dock Background

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I find that with some wallpapers, the Dock that ships with Leopard can be way too bright and stand out more than desired. How can I change the appearance of the Dock?

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LeopardDocks is a great website that has lots and lots of different replacement dock backgrounds. To use the files the website provides, just use their LeopardDocks App.

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From Real separators for the Mac OS X Leopard dock:

Run the following commands from the Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{ "tile-type" = "spacer-tile"; }'
killall Dock
Once the dock restarts, you should see a blank space after the last application that is permanently in the Dock (before the icons for applications that are currently running but not always in the Dock).

You can now drag the empty spaces to where you want them, or right-click on them and select "Remove from Dock" if you no longer need them.

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The short answer is that there doesn't appear to be anything built into the system which accomplishes this goal.

This is not to say the goal is impossible; there are addons like Docktopus which are able to dynamically "badge" Dock icons. Thus, there is obviously some form of programming interface to the Dock which may make it possible to develop a solution, if you're inclined to software development.

After scouring Google, the only app I found which dynamically badged Dock icons on Mac OS X was Docktopus, and this is sadly not one of its options. So I think your short answer will remain, "no," for some time, again, unless you build your own. Sorry. :(

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