Click dock icon to hide app?

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I’m just curious if anybody might have seen some kind of hack to get a click on the dock icon of the foreground app to hide the app?

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If you hold option then click anything other than the frontmost app… it will hide the frontmost app and switch you to whatever you clicked on.

Or do command-H, which will also hide the frontmost app.

Cheers,

Dave

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Thanks, I’m familiar with that.

The workflow I’m thinking about is like this. I have various apps hidden in the background but from time to time I want to very briefly scan their output and then immediately hide them again. In practice what I find myself doing is hitting the dock icon for the app and then cmd-h. I realized it would be much simpler (and require less hand movement, I mouse with the right hand) if I could just click once more on the dock icon to re-hide the app.

I just thought somebody might know an app that allows mod’ing the dock to work this way.

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I expect you know, but you can control-click or right-click on an app’s icon (even the front app’s icon) and get a contextual menu that includes Hide. In your situation, you could click on the app’s icon to bring it to the front, then right-click on the same icon and choose Hide.

And if you hold option and then click on the front app’s icon (which would require a hand on the option key and a hand on the mouse), the app hides immediately. You don’t need to click on another app’s icon. (I just learned this. It took me by surprise.)

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There we go. Thank you. :) :+1:

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Thank you! I did not know this one either :wink: