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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold System 10.6
Snow Leopard only hintTo use the old-style contextual menus when you click-and-hold on an application's icon in the Dock (i.e. how it worked in 10.5 and earlier), type the following two commands in Terminal (don't type the $):

defaults write com.apple.dock show-expose-menus -bool no; killall Dock

All credit for this hint goes to Jeff Johnson of Lap Cat Software, who blogged about the solution. This hint is a significant update to this one, which pointed out you can use Control-click to get the old-style contextual menus.

[robg adds: To undo this behavior, you can either change no to yes in the above command, or delete the key entirely with defaults delete com.apple.dock show-expose-menus; killall Dock.]
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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold
Authored by: R3negade on Thu, Nov 5 2009 at 1:36PM PST
lol There is no $.

Anyway this tip is really useful. Thanks

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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold
Authored by: timcrawf on Thu, Nov 5 2009 at 2:01PM PST
Yahoo! You win. It was my tip about the control-click, where I also set the challenge to find this, so I guess I owe you something.

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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold
Authored by: Pyrrhus on Thu, Nov 5 2009 at 3:22PM PST
Thanks for this great hint, the Exposé thing was driving me crazy, and I don't see why they implemented this in SL.

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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold
Authored by: akuma-x on Thu, Nov 5 2009 at 3:55PM PST
Thank you for posting this hint.
The lack of click and hold in the Dock was driving nuts.


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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold
Authored by: thyvillageidiot on Sat, Nov 7 2009 at 9:32PM PST
What kind of behavior does this evoke exactly?

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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold
Authored by: excarnate on Sun, Nov 8 2009 at 7:44AM PST
I wondered, too, what this did. Try
defaults read com.apple.dock show-expose-menus
and see if you get "The domain/default pair of (com.apple.dock, show-expose-menus) does not exist".

If so, you probably see what these people want already. To see the new behavior, that I wasn't seeing, try
defaults write com.apple.dock show-expose-menus -bool yes; killall Dock
then click-hold on something running in the dock.

I kinda like the new behavior, I switched it on permanently, especially since a right click gives me one-click access to the old way.

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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold
Authored by: elspub on Mon, Nov 9 2009 at 2:32PM PST
10.6.2 this is now unnecessary. Dock Expose now does both. Click and hold on an app's dock icon and it activates Expose for that app AND show's the app's standard contextual menu

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10.6: Display contextual menus on Dock click-and-hold
Authored by: Swordfish on Mon, Nov 9 2009 at 4:46PM PST
I installed 10.6.2. I click and hold but I only see the minimal Quit-Hide-Options menu .

Could you post a screenshot or describe how you get Dock Exposé and the full contextual menu simultaneously?

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