10.5: Change the Dock’s background and separator

I know a lot of you are not a fan of the 3D dock, however I love it. One thing that was bugging me was that little curve that was in it. It seemed so unnecessary and I felt made the dock look a little too busy. In trying to see if I could remove it, I found out that whole background is one PNG image.

The image is found here: /System » Library » CoreServices » Dock. Control-clik on the Dock file and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Once inside the dock’s package contents, you need to go into the Resources folder. There is a bit of an unknown here: The dock’s background image is called scurve.png, and if you’re doing this as you read, you’ll see there are several scurve files. The one that worked on my system was scurve-l.png. You may have to try some of the other scurve files (they range from sm to xl) to get this to work.

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