Add recent applications as a Stack on Dock

On TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) they’ve got a nifty tips section¹, with today this tip that I rather like:

How to add recent applications as a Stack on the Dock²:

Run this in Terminal.app:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

on one line, and then restart the Dock (killall Dock).

Et voila! If you don’t like it, just drag it off again.

1. Internet Archive snapshot. Original URL: http://www.tuaw.com/tag/tips/  ↩︎

2. Internet Archive snapshot. Original URL: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/16/terminal-tips-add-recent-applications-as-a-stack-on-dock/  ↩︎