[How To]hide an app from the dock

[Zammy-Sam]

Really? Where and how?

[kanecorp]

Originally posted by Zammy-Sam
Really? Where and how?

i'm sorry i misread this fourm

[g/re/p]

Originally posted by Wise_Monk
to do this and make it so its like a background app just add <key>NSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

into the plist file of that application
good for hiding msn at skool from teachers

dude, it will STILL show up in process veiwer or when using ps aux in terminal -
i though of both of them the second i read your post, and i'm not even a teacher! lol

[Arden]

Yes, if you do this and a teacher looks at the processes you're running, they will show up. But for simple glances at the screen, such applications will appear not to be running. Windows can't do that, as far as I know.

[Zammy-Sam]

I just tried this on launchbar. Didn't work to me. I searched for the file in home/Library/Preferences and added the line SOMEWHERE but nada. Where do I have to add this line exactly?

[Zammy-Sam]

Oh, I should add:
does it work with panther too? Am running panther 7b74 here...

[Arden]

In the info.plist file, add it right before the

</dict>

tag, and make sure you put it on two lines, indented like the rest of them.

And I don't see why it wouldn't work with Panther, it uses the same package contents for applications... in other words, the application's contents don't change just because you're in Panther.

[Zammy-Sam]

Doesn't work...

this is my line:
...
<string>YES</string>
<key>ShowWelcomePage</key>
<false/>
<key>NSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
</dict>
</plist>

I restarted the app, but it's still there...