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Disable resizing of the macOS dock
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macos-disable-resize
defaults write com.apple.dock size-immutable -bool true; killall Dock
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OMG THANK YOU ... of what terminal command are you thanking? I have tried all of these and none lock the length of the dock. Soo what worked for you?

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olssonm commented Nov 28, 2024

@swoondrones This doesn't lock the length of the dock (if you add/remove apps of course the dock size will change). This command prevents the actual icon sizes in the dock to change and prevent accidental size change by grabbing the dock divider.

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@swoondrones This doesn't lock the length of the dock (if you add/remove apps of course the dock size will change). This command prevents the actual icon sizes in the dock to change and prevent accidental size change by grabbing the dock divider.

Hi there. So do you know how I can fix the length of the dock? it is obviously possible, as it was happening in Sonoma, but I lost when I upgraded to Sequoia. So there is a way to fix the length of the dock and the tile size dynamically changes to fit the length of the dock. If you know about photography, think of it as the length of the dock changes when adding/deleting dock items as shutter speed priority, and the tile sizes changing to a fixed length as aperture priority. I hope that makes sense.

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