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Bill:

A safer thing to do may be to Command-drag the Recycler icon (or the icon of  
any executing application for that matter) off the dock.


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In article <1992Dec21.160202.6283@almserv.uucp> bnixon@fnma.com (Bill Nixon)  
writes:
> Ever need just one more free entry on your NeXTSTEP dock.
> Well, here's one way to do it.  I have only done this under
> 3.0, so I am not sure if it will work on older versions.
> 
> The trick is to move the Recycler icon off the dock.  Here's
> how:
> 
> 1. Open a terminal session and type "dread -n DockPaths" at
> the command line.
> 
> This will return the current entries on your dock.  Mine
> looks like this:
> 
> Workspace DockPaths "Workspace Manager;/NextApps/Preferences.app;
> /NextApps/Mail.app;/NextApps/Librarian.app;/NextApps/Edit.app; ;
> /NextDeveloper/Apps/ProjectBuilder.app;
> /NextDeveloper/Apps/InterfaceBuilder.app;
> /NextApps/Terminal.app; ; ; ;Recycler"
> 
> (NOTE:  the above will appear as one line, I added newlines
> so the various news reader don't complain.)
> 
> 2. Write out a new DockPaths entry without the Recycler
> entry.
> 
> dwrite Workspace DockPaths "Workspace Manager;/NextApps/Preferences.app;
> /NextApps/Mail.app;/NextApps/Librarian.app;/NextApps/Edit.app; ;
> /NextDeveloper/Apps/ProjectBuilder.app;
> /NextDeveloper/Apps/InterfaceBuilder.app;
> /NextApps/Terminal.app; ; ; ; "
> 
> (NOTE:  the above will appear as one line, I added newlines
> so the various news reader don't complain.)
> 
> 3. Logout and login again.  You should have a blank entry
> at the bottom of you dock and the Recycler icon will show
> up at the bottom rightmost corner just like any normal
> application icon.
> 
> 4. I did the same thing with the Workspace Manager entry
> and "it just worked".  I got a free entry at the top of my dock.
> But I didn't get a File Viewer and couldn't log out since I
> couldn't get to the Workspace menu.  Therefore I would NOT
> recommend this.
> 
> 5. Note that this is not supported by me, FannieMae or NeXT.
> If you screw things up, it's all your fault...
> 
> Bill
> -- 
> bnixon@fnma.com or ...!uunet!fnma.com!bnixon (NeXT Mail Okay)
> Bill Nixon, Senior Programmer Analyst, Advanced Technology, 2H-4S
> FannieMae, 3900 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 22016  (202) 752-5468