If you give the menu name a quick click, the menu opens and stays open. Details on how to turn on this feature are in “Exposé”.Īctually, menus are even smarter than that. If you have a trackpad, you can view miniatures of all open windows in a program by pointing to its Dock icon and then swiping down with three fingers. A shortcut menu of useful commands pops right out. To see the menu, hold the mouse button down on a Dock icon-or right-click or two-finger click it.
See “Organizing and Removing Dock Icons” for more on stacks.Įach Dock icon sprouts a pop-up menu. When you click a folder’s icon, you get a stack-an arcing row of icons, or a grid of them, that indicates what’s inside.
When you click a program’s icon, a tiny black dot appears under it to let you know it’s open. Remove a Dock icon by dragging it away from the Dock.Ĭlick something once to open it. You can add a new icon to the Dock by dragging it there.
Everything else goes on the right, including documents, folders, and disks. In Mojave, the icons of some recently opened programs live in the middle. They appear to rest on a sheet of transparent, smoked glass. This translucent row of colorful icons ( Figure 1-2, bottom) is a launcher for the programs, files, folders, and disks you use often-and an indicator to let you know which programs are already open.
