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From: cap+@cs.cmu.edu (Chris Paris)
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Subject: Re: Showing windows on top of dock icons
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Date: 9 Apr 91 00:33:30 GMT
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I don't know in general how to make the dock icons lower than application
windows, but to fix the NeXT icon you can type

    % echo "0 Beepwindow setwindowlevel" | pft

This will change the window level of only the NeXT icon. If you then drag
this icon to the bottom of your screen, you will be able to use the entire
screen.

I went a step further and replaced the bitmap for the NeXT icon with a
33% gray rectangle, so it is indistinguishable from my background
color. This was done using the perl extract/combine scripts posted a
while back on the Workspace application. These two changes together
give the appearance of no dock, save your screen from dock burnin, and
still allow you to drag the dock up when you want to use it.

Chris Paris
cap@cs.cmu.edu