We all know that by pressing the yellow button on top of all mac windows we minimize that window and send it to the dock.
From System Preferences, it’s even possible to choose ‘how’ we want that shrinking to happen: Genie effect, or Scale.
There is actually another hidden effect, which is quite similar to the Genie, but a little faster. It’s called ‘Suck’, and can be activated from terminal.
Here’s how:
That’s it!
If you want to change the effect, change point 2 with one of the following:
From System Preferences, it’s even possible to choose ‘how’ we want that shrinking to happen: Genie effect, or Scale.
There is actually another hidden effect, which is quite similar to the Genie, but a little faster. It’s called ‘Suck’, and can be activated from terminal.
Here’s how:
- Open Terminal (from applications/utilities/terminal)
- type: defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect -string suck
- reload the dock by typing: killall Dock
That’s it!
If you want to change the effect, change point 2 with one of the following:
- For Genie effect (Mac OS X Default), type: defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect -string genie
- For Scale effect, type: defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect -string scale
