Comments on: Custom Stacks Icons

By: David

David — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:55:34 +0000

I don’t know if this works for Leopard, but in snow leopard you can change the icon for the folder you want represented in the dock, then control-click/right-click on the icon in dock and choose “Display as Folder”. your new icon will show instead of the stack. After you reboot once, it should stay that way no matter what.

By: sykudo

sykudo — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:55:51 +0000

...or maybe select the option "Display as: Folder" instead of stack. (Snow Leopard)

By: Stephen Kane

Stephen Kane — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:47:42 +0000

In Snow Leopard, right click the stack and change the display from stack the folder.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:31:46 +0000

You don’t need to add dummy aliases or folders to change the appearance of the stacks icons. Just Shift-Ctrl-Click and select “Display As Folder”.

You may probably know this already, but Shift-Option-Click will give you that slow-motion effect that Steve used in the keynote…

Hope this helps.

By: Zak

Zak — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:27:44 +0000

Well, it sort of works. I have a nice applications folder icon there now with bits of the Address Book icon peeking out from around it and bits of the Adium icon peeking around that. It still looks like a horrid jumbled mess!

By: Silus Grok

Silus Grok — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:15:21 +0000

@NM: I should have been clearer… I was suggesting a folder with a custom icon at the “top” of the folder which would then be placed on the doc.

It’s the same concept being used in the link you just shared.

But thank you for getting back to me… even if it was just a misunderstanding.

By: NM

NM — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:50:36 +0000

also have a look at http://t.ecksdee.org/post/19001860
There is another solution

By: NM

NM — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:45:03 +0000

@Silus Grok:

Making an alias and putting it in the Dock indeed shows only the Icon of the folder you make the alias from (and the little arrow in the lower left corner). Unfortunately clicking an alias results in the content of the original folder being displayed in the Finder, rather than showing its content right in the Dock.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:22:48 +0000

Thanks for the tip. It’s a handy one.

The only problem is that you still end up with a stack of all the other icons beneath the new one so it’s not as clean as pre-Leopard. Oh, well.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:16:01 +0000

Good temporary trick for bypassing the problem—for now. Hopefully, Apple will revise the behavior of stacks to allow users to choose a custom icon to represent the stack and also allow for navigating the nested folders in a stack. That is another feature that is sorely missed in the OSX.