OnyX, which is free, has a variety of things you can do with the dock, including positioning. I found that being able to add spaces between groups of apps was most useful. But with Lion, I no longer need the dock.

Have you downloaded the latest update for Lion, OS 10.7.1?

Doug


On 16 Aug 2011, at 18:50, Gerhard Beurlen wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Some time ago I saw a hint on how to position the dock at the corner of the screen
> using the following Terminal command
> 
> defaults write com.apple.Dock pinning POSITION; killall Dock
> 
> where "POSITION" may be changed to either "start", "middle", or "end", depending
> on where the dock should stay. When the dock has already been moved to the
> side, the position "END" anchored the Dock at the lower right conrer of the screen.
> 
> I can?t remember where I found this hint. But this command appears not to work
> with Lion. Does anyone know how the perform this in Lion?
> 
> Even using TinkerTool, the Dock goes back to to the default position on bottom
> center when restarting the computer..
> 
> Any advice is welcome
> 
> G. Beurlen
> Rio de Janeiro Brazil
>