Open app not visible in dock?

[shogunjp]

I was wondering if there was a way to remove an active application from the dock?

For example, the "Clock", I have the floating part active, and I don't really need or want the little clock icon in the dock, is there anyway I can hide or remove it from the dock?

Thanks

[Nalmar]

If you don't care about the menubar either, you can add the lines :

<key>NSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

at the end of the "info.plist" file, just before </dict>
</plist>

This will turn the application to a background only process. It will not have a menubar, no dock icon, not listed in the force quit window.


details :
1- option-click the application
2- Chose "show content of" ( 4th item I think )
3- double-click "content"
4- Drag "info.plist" to textedit
5- make modification, save and try

[Nalmar]

the tags in my previous post got removed by the html parser so look an this attached file for what the end of your "info.plist" file should look like

[genghiscohen]

If you have the Developer Tools installed, you can easily edit any Info.plist file (any *.plist file, for that matter) with PropertyListEditor.
Also, some apps already have NSUIElement in their Info.plist. In which case, just change 0 to 1.

[twister]

Is there a way to get an application NOT to show up in the dock? I have a printer application that needs to be open but i dont ever want to see it.

Twister

[edX]

just drag the icon out onto the desktop and watch it go poof. no need to have any programs in the dock at all really if you don't want them there. i just keep some commonly used ones there, have a few more aliased icons on desktop and go find anything else that comes up that i need. i can't imagine how a printer utility got there unless you put it there.

[bubbajim]

I think twister meant how to keep an active application out of the dock...

Twister's last thread regarded HP Officejet G85 drivers, so I am assuming that he is wanting to find a way to let the Officejet Communications Extension from showing up in the dock. The extension has to be open whenever you want to print. I grew tired of it too, so I decided that I was no longer gonna use the dock and went with Drag Thing. I like the tab function since the dock looks way to cluttered when you put more than 10 or so apps on it. Now I just hide the dock and not worry about active apps showing up in there.

Another annoyance with the HP app is that is maintains a constant communication either with the print server or the printer itself, because if you have a network monitor you will see a constant pinging going on between the devices and it will go away once you quit the HP app.

Maybe someone here with some command line savvy can figure out how to turn these kind of apps into background processes that don't take up space on the dock. There's gotta be a way to do this since there are other processes on that are in the background and don't show up as an app.

(boy this is sure longwinded need to learn shorthand )

[twister]

you are exactly correct bubbajim. i suppose i could only have the little extension thing open when i wanna print but that is also annoying.


Twister