OS x Novice needs to learn a lot of things, but learn a few strokes often can be used to achieve a multiplier effect. The next little compilation teaches you how to set up the dock bar to show only active apps. So that you can find what you need the quickest.
For users with a large number of applications, it is generally possible to find and open the app through Spotlight, and then switch between applications by Command+tab.
The way we're going to introduce today is to use the dock bar to quickly switch the open app, which also makes the dock bar more concise.
How to make the dock bar of OS X Show only active apps (apps running in the background)
1. Open the terminal
2. Enter defaults write Com.apple.dock static-only-bool TRUE; killall Dock and click Back
3. after the dock bar restarts, you can see the changes
4. exit the terminal and the dock bar will look like this
If you want the dock bar to revert back to its original state, open the terminal again and enter defaults write Com.apple.dock static-only-bool FALSE; killall Dock .