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i recently got my mac book pro back from repairs( i over heated the PMU long story) anyway they did a clean install of snowleopard and now i cant activate any of the teriminal comands like the shading on the stack grids (code follows)

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean NO
killall Dock


or bringing the dashboard icons to ur desktop (code follows)

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

anyway i put both those command lines into terminal and nothing works what should i do

i apologize in advance if this is in the wronge thread if so can an admin plz move it to where it needs to go
 

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defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean NO
killall Dock
That should be (I noted the difference in red):
Code:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hil[COLOR="Red"]i[/COLOR]te-stack -boolean YES
See here.

Can't help you with the other one.
 
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That should be (I noted the difference in red):
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defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hil[COLOR="Red"]i[/COLOR]te-stack -boolean YES
See here.

Can't help you with the other one.

i tried the way in the vid and they way u recomended and neither worked but thank you anyway
 

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I have Snow Leopard and it worked for me. I executed the command above and killed the Dock. After doing so, I had a gradient highlight behind my stack items (like in the vid). Did you copy it right from my post? Did you remember to kill the Dock afterwards?
 

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