5/28/2023 0 Comments Moving dock mac![]() ![]() But Hide Others is something that can be useful. Of course you should rarely ever have to use Force Quit. If I do an Up Arrow with Notes selected in the Dock and then I hold the Option key down notice how Hide and Quit change to Hide Others and Force Quit. You could also bring up more Menu items if you use the Option key on the Menus here. So instead of just Return I'll do Command Option and Return and Notes will come up and all the other apps will be hidden. You can do that using Command and Option. But let's say I want to Hide all the other apps and just launch one. Now when you launch an app like this, like Calendar say, and then you go to do it again and launch another app, like let's say Reminders, it will launch Reminders over the Calendar app there. Let's say I want to get to something like FaceTime I could type fa and you could see it jumps to that. Or f to get to the first app that starts with f. So instead of left or right arrows I can use a letter key like m to get to Messages, the first app that starts with m. As a matter of fact you can use letter keys while in the Dock here. Yes, I can use a letter key here, like for instance L to jump to one. Here you see in System Preferences I can get to any part of System Preferences. For Finder I get a list of recent locations and other functions I can use by using Up Arrow, going to what I want, and then pressing Return. For instance for Launchpad, if I do that, I get a list of all of the apps there. So it depends on which app I'm using as to what appears there. I'll use right arrow there to go into Options. Now in addition to moving right and left I can also use the Up Arrow to go into the Menu there. Notice that when I use it again it remembers my last position. ![]() If I want to launch something like let's say Calendar, I can press return and Calendar launches. Now I can use the Arrow Keys to move through the items. So with Control F3 it will bring the Dock up if you have it hidden and you see it selects the first item there, Finder. I'm going to switch this On so I can use this easily with Control F3 here. Some other keyboard shortcut that you're not using for something else like maybe Command Option D or something like that. You can just click here and assign it to something else. So if you plan on using this a lot you may want to actually go and change this to something else. ![]() Otherwise if it is Off you have to find the fn key on your keyboard. So you'd have to turn this On to actually do Control F3. Another thing is that under Keyboard here if you've got this thing turned Off then using these keys, like for instance the F12, will increase volume as you can see there. For one thing Control is at the bottom of your keyboard and F3 is at the top. Now that's not always the most convenient one to use. But you can get to that with a keyboard shortcut that you'll find when you go to Keyboard here and then look for this one, Move focus to the Dock. After all the main way is to move your pointer down to the bottom and then click on an icon. How do you actually use the Dock with just the keyboard. So if you change it to something else or turned it off that's why it may not be working. It's Option Command D and you have to have it checked. Go to Launchpad & Dock right here and you'll see Turn Dock Hiding On and Off. Now this keyboard shortcut is found in System Preferences under Keyboard and then Shortcuts. So it gets out of the way when you don't need it but when you do need it it will appear without any extra action. But only while the pointer is along the bottom. ![]() It hides except that if you then move your pointer to the bottom it will appear. You can Hide the Dock using the keyboard shortcut Option Command D. So the first one I want to show you simply hides the Dock because it takes up a lot of space at the bottom of the screen or even if you use it to the left or the right side. But, in fact, you have a lot of keyboard control over the Dock and can do just about anything with keyboard shortcuts. Something you would use mostly with your mouse or trackpad to move the pointer over an icon to launch an app. So the Dock seems like a very visual tool. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you how to use the Dock on your Mac with just your keyboard. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Using the Mac Dock With Only Your Keyboard at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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