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reducing the number of app icons in each Launchpad folder and possibly
creating overflow folders.
Restoring Default Icon Sizes
To restore the default grid size in Launchpad, again open a Terminal window,
and type the following two lines:
DEFAULTS DELETE COM.APPLE.DOCK SPRINGBOARD-ROWS
DEFAULTS DELETE COM.APPLE.DOCK SPRINGBOARD-COLUMNS;KILLALL DOCK
Once you do this, you might notice that all your icons are spread out across
various pages within Launchpad. This is a side effect caused by making icons
bigger. You can either drag and drop them back into place or simply issue
the following command in a Terminal window, which will reset Launchpad to
the default values (although also deleting any Launchpad folders you've
created):
DEFAULTS WRITE COM.APPLE.DOCK RESETLAUNCHPAD -BOOL TRUE;KILLALL DOCK
Tip 2
Turn Off Irritating “Rubber-Band” Scrolling
You might have noticed that if you scroll to the top or bottom of a document
or web page within some OS X apps like TextEdit, the page continues to scroll
a little into a boundary area, before springing back. This is known as
rubber-
band scrolling
and, depending on your point of view, can be rather annoying.
Deactivating Rubber-Band Scrolling in Most OS X Apps
To turn it off in most applications, all you need to do is open a Terminal
window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of
applications double-click Terminal within the
UTILITIES
folder), and type the fol-
lowing, before logging out and back in again:
DEFAULTS WRITE -G NSSCROLLVIEWRUBBERBANDING -INT 0
To reactivate rubber-band scrolling, should you ever want to, again open a
Terminal window, and type the following:
DEFAULTS DELETE -G NSSCROLLVIEWRUBBERBANDING
Log back out and in again for the changes to take effect.
