How to remove the Automator gear icon in the menu bar

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I have Automator workflow applications that I run from keyboard shortcuts. It is great, however, a small gear icon always appears.

I would like to remove it.

  1. How do you do this?
  2. I usually remove all the pixels from the image of menu bar icons of applications, so they are invisible in the menu bar. I could easily do this with Automator (or the Automator application launcher), but can't find where the menu bar icons are stored. Where would they be stored?

Best Answer

If you are starting a long-running process with "Run Shell Script", redirecting its output should be enough. For example:

long-running-process &>/dev/null &

The gear icon appears then goes away shortly after, I think it is better than nothing...