How to add a Stack for Recent Things to your Dock in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

1. Launch Terminal from the Utilities folder.

2. Type the following and press Return or Enter on your keyboard.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’

3. Now you can either restart your Mac or kill and restart the dock by typing the following and pressing Return or Enter after each of these commands.

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled Boolean YES;killall Dock

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled Boolean NO;killall Dock

Now you should have a nice Recent Things Stack added to your dock.