MacOS – Avoid showing hidden applications in the cmd+tab navigation menu

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I recently switched to OS X Mountain Lion. I have applications like Skype and Pidgin which start at login and are hidden, but when I have more applications running and I do ⌘ cmd + ⇥ Tab to switch between application these hidden applications also appear there.

How can I avoid showing them?

Best Answer

Here is a blog post from someone who managed to remove Finder from the Application Switcher by adding this entry:

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

To the info.plist file of the specific app (in this case, Finder).

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