Hide Proteus (chat client) from dock

3mors

3mors

HampCake Studios
I'd like to hide Proteus from dock, but if I add:

Code: 
<key>NSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

to the plist file inside Proteus pkg it doesn't work (the icon appears on the dock when I run it).

Any help?
 
now there's a strange behaviour:

if i put the string to 0 instead of 1 or if i delete all the tag and logout/login, the app doesn't appear on the dock anymore

and if i click on one of its window the menubar remains the same as the finder one, so i can't view any menu of the app.

any help?
sorry :(
 
Certain apps that are running all the time are wasting space on the dock. I have finder and launchbar hidden just to save some space. And with this plist add it works just fine for me.
3mors, did you log out and in again after you deleted those two lines from the plist?
 
Yes, I did.
The problem is that now finder seems not to show this app as running.
It's not in the list of "Force Quit" and so I can't select the options on the menu such as "Preferences".
If I want to quit the app I have to do via terminal with kill.

I restore the plist file as the original, I logged out, restart etc etc, but it doesn't work.
Is there a "cache" or something like that about apps and windows visualization on finder?
 
I've just read on many web pages that "There's no way currently to hide an icon from the Apple Dock without also hiding the menubar for that application."

This seems my problem, but I can't go back with this mod.
 
i wouldn't want to trash the dock plist, but i've already tried to modify it everywhere I find the word "proteus". No chance.
 
you don't have to really trash it. Simply move it to see if it makes any change. There must be an add somewhere you missed
 
no, i solved ;)

i simply delete the app and reinstall it
now it's as original
but a last question:

is there a way to hide it from dock without hiding its menubar?
 
The problem is, that you have to "call" the app somehow. Since you are switching within the dock-apps there is no wonder you can't get the menubar. However, ichatav for example has an icon in the menubar. When I hide ichatav editing the plist in the app-package, I was still able to get into the app menu using the menubar icon (like clock and airportsignal). Is there any such option in proteus?
 
no, that's the problem

the preferences (option i use often) is only reachable under proteus menu in menubar

i launch the app at boot and i get proteus little icon on the menubar near clock and other stuff, no chance to view preferences
 
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