A Quick tip for OS-X users,
If you want to hide the dock icon of an application you can do so by editing the info.plist file, I believe this only works with Cocoa apps but I am not certain. You will probably have to copy the file from the original location since you might not be able to edit it inside the package contents for the application in question.
Disclaimer, you do this at your own risk and I am in no way responsible.
- 1. Find the application.
- 2. Right click or CTRL click and choose ‘Show Package Contents’.
- 3. Open the Contents folder and look for the file named ‘info.plist’.
- 4. Copy this file to a temporary location like the desktop to edit it.
- 5. Edit the file in your favorite text editor.
- 6. Either locate or create the following section,
<KEY>NSUIElement</KEY>
- 7. You need to set it to read,
<KEY>NSUIElement</KEY> <STRING>1</STRING></li>
- 8. Save the file and copy it back to the original location.
- 9. Quit the program and restart it, you should no longer see a dock icon.
- 10. If you want to reverse the process just change the value to
0 .
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Categories: OS-X, Tips