How to change the color of indiaktora the Dock in OS X

Once replaced the background in notification center and "Terminal"added in OS X your sounds and changed the standard sound BassoIn hover marafeta in "apple OSes" you can go to the Dock. Indicators of running applications to someone may seem inconspicuous and boring? They can be changed, and quite simple.

The method is easier

To replace the standard indicators "Doc" There are two modes: easy and difficult. Easy by using MacUtil utility. You swing it from the official site, Run and go to the tab Dock. Find here the eighth row from the top, where he wrote: «Change indicator light color for open applications» (that is to say "to change the color of the indicator light for outdoor applications"). press the buttonChange and in the resulting window, select one of the colors.

Among the proposed special attention deserves color variant Custom (color). Pressing this button, you need to find the disk prefab PNG-file, which will serve as indicators. You can for example, save it to your computer, this one black "brusochek" 10 × 3 points:

Or this one, 20 × 6 points - if you have a Retina-screen:

Download one of these pictures - you will feed her MacUtil, and can be enjoyed.

The method is more difficult

For those who prefer to do all the handles, you can specify a folder /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources: Here are all the incarnation of the indicator for the three primary dimensions Dock-bar in its two embodiments - and pseudo plane. All the files you need start with the word indicator_.

You will need to make two images: a large display for 3D- and 2D-panels in the double resolution - and then they expanded and scaled to permit 1x and 2x in medium and small versions. They can draw in any more or less functional graphics editor, starting with GIMP and ending with Pixelmator and Photoshop. Although, perhaps, it will be enough not to draw new ones, and to correct the old: to change the fill color, for example.

Be sure to keep the original image before the change. Replacing standard indicators on their own, enter in the "Terminal" command

killall Dock

- "Doc" restart with new indicators.

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