dockpin
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Keep the macOS Dock on one display.
With more than one display, macOS moves the Dock to whichever screen you push the
cursor against the bottom of. Reach for a window near the bottom of your second
monitor and the Dock jumps over. There is no setting to turn this off.
dockpin is a small menu bar app that stops it.
Features
- The Dock stays put. The Dock edges of your other displays stop pulling the
Dock over. The pointer still moves freely.
- Pick a display, the Dock moves there. Right away, from the menu bar.
- Hold
Option to move the Dock the usual way when you want to.
- Knows your layout. Edges shared with a neighbouring display stay open, so the
pointer still crosses between stacked monitors. Bottom, left and right Docks.
- Brings the Dock home when macOS moves it by itself (displays waking from
sleep) or the pinned display is plugged back in. Never on the lock screen.
- A fallback display for while the pinned one is unplugged.
- Works with auto-hide.
- One permission, no network. Accessibility only. No keyboard access, no data
collected.
Install
brew install --cask esteban-eg-kim/tap/dockpin
Or download dockpin-x.y.z.zip from Releases,
move dockpin.app to /Applications, and run once:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/dockpin.app
dockpin is signed but not notarized (no paid Apple Developer account), so without
that line macOS refuses to open it. Homebrew does it for you.
Quick start
- Open dockpin and allow it under System Settings › Privacy & Security ›
Accessibility (macOS 27: Device Control and Data Access).
- Click the pin in the menu bar and choose the display under Keep the Dock on.
- That's it. Push against the bottom of another display: the Dock stays.
The full guide covers every menu item, multi-display layouts, auto-hide and
troubleshooting: Manual (한국어).
How it works
The Dock moves when it sees the pointer pressing against a display's Dock edge.
dockpin drops the mouse moves that land in a 4-point strip along that edge on every
display except the pinned one, and only on the outer part of the edge.
To move the Dock, dockpin does what you would: it runs the pointer into the pinned
display's Dock edge for half a second, then puts it back.
Requirements
| |
|---|
| macOS | 13 Ventura or later (tested on macOS 27) |
| Chips | Apple silicon and Intel (universal) |
| Permission | Accessibility |
Build
Needs only the Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install).
scripts/test.sh # unit tests
ARCHS=arm64 scripts/bundle.sh # → build/dockpin.app
open build/dockpin.app
See Build from source for keeping the
permission across rebuilds, and docs/media/make.sh for the pictures and video.
Related
DockAnchor solves the same problem with
more features (profiles, moving the Dock back automatically). dockpin aims to be
smaller: one menu, and it leaves edges shared between displays open.
License
MIT
