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# Highlight Stacks
- URL: https://tim.sodhis.org/highlight-stacks/
- Published: 2010-06-02T21:08:11.000Z
- Updated: 2010-06-02T21:08:11.000Z
- Author: Tim Sodhi
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2026-01-11 22:49

Remember the good old days of Leopard? You’d click on a stack, and a lengthy while later, it would pop-up a list of your documents, apps or what have you, with a nice halo around the hovered item.

Come Snow Leopard, and Apple has fixed many of the endearing waits for the stacks to open/render, but in so doing, they got rid of the highlighted object. You can select items alright, but where’s the highlight?

![](https://tim.sodhis.org/content/images/wordpress/2010/06/Screen_shot_2010-06-02_at_10-thumb.04.10_PM.png)  
Worry not, here’s how-to. Open the terminal on your Macs and do the following (after sudo -s).

> defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean TRUE  
> killall Dock

And voila, you have a halo.