#How to hide mac dock icons software#

If you are too lazy to do this yourself, FoggyNoggin Software has created an application called Dock Dodger that automates the process. To bring back the Dock icon, simply open up the ist file and remove the lines you added. Go to System Preferences Dock & Menu Bar Dock & Menu Bar and uncheck Show recent applications in Dock to hide that. If the application doesn't have any windows, you will have to quit it from Activity Monitor (in Applications/Utilities). This means that you will have to quit the application using the keyboard shortcut Command-Q. I wouldn't recommend doing this with your regular applications like iTunes and Safari as this also has the side-effect of disabling the menu bar. In a few clicks, record your screen and save it as a video or an optimized GIF file. Now when you open the application, no icon will appear in the Dock. A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. For the changes to take effect, you need to move the application to the desktop and them back to its original location (OS X keeps a cache of the file, so you need to trick it into checking it again). You can hide the dock on your Mac computer to get rid of the application icons that appear along the bottom of your screen. In the file, paste the following two lines just after on the 6th line: Open this file using TextEdit by right-clicking on it and choosing 'Open With - Other' from the menu.

If this is the case, select 'Show Package Contents' and look for the 'ist' file inside the Contents folder. Doing that still leaves the icon in the dock, it only hides the app. The above will work for items you want started when you log in.

2.) Open ist file with a text editor (eg macOS TextEdit, or the powerful. If 'Show Package Contents' is in the menu that appears, you can hide the icon in the Dock. In System Preference->Account Preferences under the Startup Items tab, you can add an application and check the Hide check box to hide the icon from the dock. First you need to add the Remove from Dock option to Finder and Trash. To see if it is possible, right-click (Control-click) on the application icon. Luckily, if it is a cocoa application, you can hide the Dock icon yourself. Many applications like this automatically hide their Dock icon ( Google Notifier, Quicksilver) however some don't ( Launchbar, HardwareGrowler). Having a Dock icon for applications that are accessed through a menu bar item or constantly run in the background would just waste space and clutter up your Dock. There are many applications on your Mac that don't need a Dock icon.

How to hide mac dock icons