Apr 29, 2020 To turn Stacks on or off: Choose View Use Stacks from the Finder menu bar. Or Control-click (right-click) anywhere on your desktop, then choose Use Stacks from the shortcut menu. When Stacks is on, each file is part of a stack, unless it's the only file of its kind on your desktop. In Mac OS X Leopard, docklings were replaced by Stacks. Stacks 'stack' files into a small organized folder on the Dock, and they can be opened by left-clicking. Stacks could be shown in three ways: a 'fan', a 'grid', or a 'list', which is similar to docklings.
Stacks are a feature found in Apple's macOS, starting in Mac OS X Leopard. As the name implies, they 'stack' files into a small organized folder on the Dock. At the WWDC07 Keynote Presentation, Steve Jobs stated that in Leopard, the user will be given a default stack called Downloads, in which all downloaded content will be placed.
In the initial release of Leopard, Stacks could be shown two ways, in a 'fan' or a 'grid'. With the release of the 10.5.2 update, a third 'list' view was added. This list view allows folder icons to display their contents in pop-out side menus. Originally, if the fan view was too long to fit within the screen, it was automatically displayed as a grid. The user could also choose to have a fan stack always display as a grid, but they could not choose to make it fan out (due to the reason above). After the update, the top item in the fan would allow the user to open the folder in the Finder.
The list view also shows an Options pop-out menu which, when opened, allows users to change the display method used by the Stack (fan, grid or list), the order items in the Stack are displayed (by name, date created, date modified, date added and kind), and the appearance of the Stack icon in the dock (folder or stack). These options are available in the other three methods by either right-clicking on the icon with the right button of a two-button mouse, or by holding down the Control key on the keyboard while simultaneously clicking with a one-button mouse. Holding down the primary mouse button will target the contextual menu as well.
With the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Stacks have been further enhanced. Stacks will allow viewing a subfolder without moving to a Finder window. Stacks have also been modified to include scroll-bars for folders with many files.
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You can drag any item from the Finder into your Mac's Dock to access it quickly. But this will quickly clutter your Dock with a lot of stuff that you may still access infrequently.
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Instead, check out this quick tip for the command line that lets you access recently opened documents, apps, servers, and other items.
If you've never used Terminal before, you'll find it in the Applications > Utilities folder on your Mac. As OS X is a Unix-based operating system, Terminal provides you with command-line access to the system. The majority of Mac users won't ever need to access Terminal for any reason. But Terminal gives you access to a wealth of system features and functionality that you don't get using the OS X graphical user interface.
How to add recent used apps and documents to your OS X Dock
- Open Terminal.
- Type
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{'tile-data' = {'list-type' = 1;}; 'tile-type' = 'recents-tile';}'; killall Dock, then press return. (You can copy this line of text and paste it into Terminal to avoid having to retype it.) - Close Terminal.
Your Dock will now show a new icon on the right hand side (near the Trash can). This stack displays recently used applications by default. If you control-click (or right-click) on that icon, you can change that list to recent documents, recent servers, favorite volumes, or favorite items. You can also change the view style — I prefer Grid, myself.
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If you want to get rid of this new Dock item, just click and drag it out and hold it for a couple of seconds; a popup will appear that says 'Remove.' (Alternately, you can select 'Remove from Dock' by control-clicking/right-clicking the Dock item too.)
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