Mac – Are there any way to hide the dock icon but keep the menubar icon

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Edit .plist will hide both menubar and dock icon. Are there any way to hide the dock icon but keep the menubar icon?

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You have to edit the Plist file for the app. Plist files use a key/value format, declaring the type of the key. The correct code is:

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>true</string>

Stick these in before the </dict> </plist> lines, and voilà. This works as late as High Sierra, and on the apps I have done this for it does eliminate the dock icon but not the menu bar one.

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Try editing the app's plist (inside the .app package i.e xScope.app/Contents/Info.plist)

and add or edit the following entry:

<key>NSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

Because this hides the menu bars, it should be possible to create a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences>Keyboard>Keyboard Shortcuts for any functionality that you need the menus for.

MacOS – Hide Adium (or any other app’s) icon in the dock

I achieved this with a simple Terminal command:

defaults write /Applications/Adium.app/Contents/Info.plist LSUIElement true

Per defaults(1), "Defaults allows users to read, write, and delete Mac OS X user defaults from a command-line shell." So this is actually doing the same thing as the other answers here, but without manually editing the plist file, which makes it much safer, not to mention easier (and scriptable).

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