Tip: Launching the Dock
February 3rd, 2006
The other day I installed iLife ‘06. When it was done, the Dock quit but did not relaunch. To get it back, I would normally log out and back in. I didn’t want to do that in the middle of a DVD burn, and I didn’t want to wait either (duh! I’m an impatient, solution oriented geek).
Using the system without the Dock would normally have been pretty much impossible. However, I was running QuickSilver, so I just used that to lanch Opera. I googled, but wasn’t able to immediately find anything useful. Then it struck me that I’d seen the Dock in Activity Monitor running as an application, not a service or anything fancy.
So I fired up Terminal (again thanks to QS) and typed find / -name "Dock.app". And bingo, there it was: /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/.
With that little piece of information, launching the dock was trivial:
open /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/
There you have it. You know, just in case.
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