QUESTION: MACOS Dock

[Graham Carter]

So here's the question...

 

When you full screen an application, in macOS it hides the doc at the bottom and the menu bar at the top

However if you have an application (for example safari) running in a non full screen window, the dock prevents you from resizing the window right to the bottom as illustrated below...

 

dock uses the bottom section of the screen

 

However, I want to have the dock not foceabnly take up that extra space at the bottom like the picture below

(this was achieved by turning on the auto hide dock, resizing the browser to the bottom of the screen and then turning the auto hide option off)

 

This is what I want to happen, ie the dock to be transparent over an application using all of the screen

 

I realise that this may sound petty, but its a preference one would like to have

Yes, you can use all available space by either having auto-hide turned on, or full screening the app, but was curious if there was a terminal command to allow the dock to overlay any running applications and not reserve the bottom section of the screen?

[DrMacintosh]

Just put the dock on the left hand side. 

[jslowik]

Auto-hide would be the only real option other than moving to the side of screen as mentioned above. Actually I do recommend at least giving this a try. I was pretty resistant for a while coming from Windows, but it has certainly grown on me.

Edited February 18, 2019 by jslowik
I can't read.

[Graham Carter]

Yeah but then moving it to the left of the screen just chews up real estate horizontally instead of vertically 

The hide option is the best solution to be honest until someone comes up with a terminal hack

[Maltego]

Or just resize the bar until it's at the smallest point. You can hardly notice it, but still, use the bar. 

[jslowik]

On 2/18/2019 at 6:21 PM, Graham Carter said:

Yeah but then moving it to the left of the screen just chews up real estate horizontally instead of vertically  

The hide option is the best solution to be honest until someone comes up with a terminal hack

 

I've found that I don't miss horizontal space as much as vertical these days. YMMV.

[DrTesla]

Why don't you just put the dock on the right or left hand sides instead of messing about with Terminal commands?