| Tip 313 | Access a Secret Dock Visual Effect |
You probably know that you can change the visual effect you see when you minimize a window by opening System Preferences (Apple menu→System Preferences), clicking the Dock icon, and selecting from the Minimize Windows Using drop-down list. Two are available: Genie and Scale. Genie is the default effect, while Scale simply reduces the scaling of the window as it moves down to be stored in the Dock.
Activating the Suck
However, there’s a third effect not on the list: Suck. As its name suggests, this is rather like the window is being sucked into the Dock by a powerful vacuum cleaner!
To activate the effect, open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications ...
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