OS X :: Minimize Button Hides Window, Doesn't Put It In Dock?

Mar 31, 2009

I love how in OSX you can go to a Window in the dock and click hide:


Instead of the window minimizing and taking up even more room on the dock, it just hides in the already existing icon (in this case the active window hides in the safari icon). When I click minimize on the actual window this happens:


Now Safari is taking up two spaces on my dock. Is there any way to make it so every time, no matter what the window is, if you click minimize or even exit, it hides the window as opposed to minimizing it and wasting a dock space?

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OS X :: Minimize Window In Dock Issue?

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So I was toying around with this app I learned about recently called Secrets. It's an add-on for your System Preferences. For those who don't know what it is, it easily changes preferences in many Apple apps like iTunes, Finder, etc that Apple didn't make public for change and without you directly using Terminal commands to make the changes. Definitely check it out if you're interested in tweeking your system a bit.


Anyway, so while playing with it, changed some wanted things, and some things which I wasn't sure what they were but decided to change it anyway and see what happened.

I did something to my dock where when you minimize a window open, it'll go down normally into the dock, but instead shows the top left corner of that window rather than showing the whole window. It looks like this when I minimize...


[Sample of my dock near the trash bin with Preview, Quicktime, and Firefox docked.]


I want to change it back to the default option where it minimizes and shows the whole window rather than just the top corner. This is bugging me! I can't figure out what I did and went through all the options in Secrets.

Anyone know the Terminal command to change it back to the default or any other alternative to change it back to normal?


[If anyone asks what icons those are in my dock, it's the Litho 2.0 series from Icon Factory.]

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