Toggle Dock is the easiest way to hide/show the dock icon for a running app.
They’re still running in the background, but are not visible on your desktop. To bring them back and instantly pick up where you left off, just click the app’s icon in the Dock. Other than pressing Cmd+H, you can hide currently running apps in a few different ways too. GhostTile lets you hide running applications from Dock in multiple ways: Drag & Drop; xSelect from /Applications folder; Click icon on Dock; Per app config to hide or add menubar item; Notification for added Apps’ Dock activities; GhostTile also has multiple ways to quick switch back: Click on menubar; Call out Quick Switch window; Alias folder on Dock. Go to your applications folder and right click (control-click) on the app you wanna hide from the dock. Click on Show contents. You should now be able to see 'inside' the app's files. Open the Info.plist file in the Contents folder with TextEdit (right click - 'Open with.'
Toggle Dock allows you to remove certain applications from the Dock. Dock real estate can become precious, and some apps don’t make a whole lot of sense sitting there. With Toggle Dock, any OS X application can be made to show in the Dock or not.
* FAQ
Q: Is it safe to use Toggle Dock?
A: It is absolutely safe to use Toggle Dock to hide app Dock icon, Toggle Dock does NOT modify any system or application files on your Mac.
A: It is absolutely safe to use Toggle Dock to hide app Dock icon, Toggle Dock does NOT modify any system or application files on your Mac.
Q: Do I need to keep Toggle Dock running all the time?
A: No, you don’t need to. Once you’ve hidden an app from the Dock, you can quit Toggle Dock and continue with other stuffs.
A: No, you don’t need to. Once you’ve hidden an app from the Dock, you can quit Toggle Dock and continue with other stuffs.
Q: The app Dock icon does not go away when I try to hide it?
A: Please make sure that you haven’t enable “Keep in Dock” for the app.
A: Please make sure that you haven’t enable “Keep in Dock” for the app.
If you have applications that you don’t want to show up in either the Dock or menu bar, with 30 spare seconds and TextWrangler, you can control their visibility on an app-by-app basis.
There are two ways of doing this. The first method is more universal and fun, but slightly more manual. The second method is to use Dockless. Both methods *only* change whether an application’s Dock/Menu bar icon shows up. It does not affect how it can be run/opened, or it’s functionality.
Editing the Application’s Info.plist
Requirements: Download TextWrangler (Mac App Store, Developer’s Site)
1. In Finder, right click the Application that you want to hide. Click “Show Package Contents”
2. Finder will open a new window with a folder named “Contents”. Open the folder
3. Right click the “info.plist” file, and select “Open With”. Click on TextWrangler in the menu
4. The info.plist will open in TextWrangler. Locate (generally on the fourth line) where it says. In a new line right under, copy and paste:
5. Save (CMD+S)
If you ever want to undo this and make the icon(s) visible again, open the info.plist file in TextWrangler again, and change the: How to delete apps from laptop.
<string>1</string>
<string>0</string>
Use Dockless
1. Download Dockless
2. Click the “Simple” tab
3. Drag and drop the application that you wish to hide into the Dockless box.
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4. Click the application’s icon in Dockless to hide. To unhide it, click it again.
Mac Dock Apps
The only reason I was initially hesitant about using Dockless is because it’s sometimes fickle in which applicactions it wants to work with. If it works for you, great! If not, try the other method.