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Make Hidden Apps Transparent on Mac OS X

I love this hack, and I always miss it on a newly installed Mac.

This code snippet makes the icons of hidden applications semi-transparent. This makes it a lot easier to understand which applications are currently hidden.

The change will be visible in the Dock and in the fast app switcher (the thing shown when hitting cmd + tab).

Open Terminal and write these two lines:

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
killall Dock

That’s it.

To revert the changes, write the code above but change “YES” to “NO”.