Sometimes, there can be nothing more irritating than an Dock icon bouncing up and down, trying to get your attention, often for some stupid reason. Luckily, you can prevent this behavior but to do so, you’ll have to enter a couple of lines in the Terminal Applicaiton.
To Stop Dock Icons from Bouncing
- Open the Terminal application.
- Type or paste in the following line of code: defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE
- Press Enter or Return.
- To restart the Dock, type or paste in the following line of code: killall Dock
- Press Enter or Return.
If you ever want to return the the original bouncing behavior, repeat the process above except place the word TRUE with the word FALSE.
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I cannot get this to work for me. I am carefully pasting or typing in command etc but still bouncing icons. Any ideas,. Thanks
defaults write com.apple.Terminal no-bouncing -bool TRUE
Note how you use Terminal instead of Dock. Seems to have worked well for me and is a bonus since you only want the Terminal to stop bouncing and not the rest.