Behavior Settings

Global settings that affect how dock items open, how docks snap, and how fixed docks interact with app windows.

Open Settings (⚙) → Behavior.

Left click behavior

Choose what happens when you click a running app icon:

  • Open — Activate the app or return to its last used window

  • Minimize — Toggle the current app window between minimized and restored

Minimize requires Accessibility permission. Without it, clicks fall back to normal open and activate behavior.

See Left-Click Behavior.

Open folders with

Choose the application used when folder dock items are clicked.

By default, folders open in Finder. You can choose another app if you prefer a different file manager.

Magnetic snapping

When dragging a floating dock near a screen edge, it magnetically snaps into alignment.

Toggle Disable magnetic snapping if you prefer full free-form positioning.

Reserve Dock Space

When enabled, expanded app windows stay outside the area occupied by your fixed docks. This prevents windows from hiding behind edge-pinned docks.

Requires Accessibility permission. ExtraDock uses macOS Accessibility to detect and resize overlapping windows.

Active on Drag

By default, Reserve Dock Space adjusts windows when they are expanded with the green zoom button or by double-clicking the title bar.

Enable Active on Drag to also adjust windows after a manual drag or resize that overlaps a fixed dock.

This option is only available when Reserve Dock Space is enabled.