{"id":9,"date":"2023-11-06T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/?p=9"},"modified":"2024-02-01T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:30:37","slug":"add-spacers-to-the-macos-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/add-spacers-to-the-macos-dock\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Spacers to the macOS Dock (Small &amp; Large)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>I\u2019ve been using spacers in my dock forever, it a super nice way to organise apps within my dock. I use them to categories apps, in the screenshot you can see I\u2019ve separated design apps and dev apps.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"122\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/e08a906c9544f6b5932b607c1335f3084c1fc5cc.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/e08a906c9544f6b5932b607c1335f3084c1fc5cc.jpeg 860w, https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/e08a906c9544f6b5932b607c1335f3084c1fc5cc-300x43.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/e08a906c9544f6b5932b607c1335f3084c1fc5cc-768x109.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The icons are rotated because I have my dock on the right side of the screen, the screenshot has simply been rotated.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Open up Terminal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Open your favourite terminal application, I\u2019m using Warp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Execute the command<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The spacers come in two sizes, use whichever you prefer, I\u2019m using the small spacers in the screenshot above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small spacers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-small-font-size\"><code>defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{\"tile-type\"=\"small-spacer-tile\";}'; killall Dock<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Large spacers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code has-small-font-size\"><code>defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{\"tile-type\"=\"spacer-tile\";}'; killall Dock<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"arrange-them-however-you-please\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Arrange them however you please<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can move the blank space around like normal apps, you also remove them the same way too. To add more spacers, simply run the command again, or as many times as you need!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been using spacers in my dock forever, it a super nice way to organise apps within my dock. I use them to categories apps, in the screenshot you can see I\u2019ve separated design apps and dev apps. Open up Terminal Open your favourite terminal application, I\u2019m using Warp. Execute the command The spacers come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.0six.dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}