I know that I can restart the Dock using a killall Dock on the command line. I can also restart the Finder by Alt-right-clicking the Finder icon. Is there a similar way to restart the Dock without using the command line?
MacOS – How to restart the Dock without using the command line
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There is no easy way to do this, but there is a little hack :)
- Navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/
- Backup DockMenus.plist
- Open DockMenus.plist in your favorite text editor with root access
Find section
finder-runningand add new sub-section<dict> <key>command</key> <integer>1004</integer> <key>name</key> <string>REMOVE_FROM_DOCK</string> </dict>or just Download my version of DockMenus.plist
In plist editor file should look like this:
Open Terminal and run
killall Dock.Right click on Finder icon in Dock - Bingo!
p.s After Dock restart (manual relaunch or mac reboot) you need manually remove Finder icon from Dock
You could write a shell script to invoke the java app with the parameters you need, then wrap it up in an app with Platypus.
The resultant app can then be put in the Dock like any other app.
I've used it for a variety of tasks, such as popping-up a help screen with a serial number for users to enter for a recalcitrant app which didn't like mass deployment and would ask the user to enter it at first run, to a complicated script which mounted a disk-image of a science textbook's additional media DVD and then ran the associated app to access the content. Platypus even allowed me to roll the disk-image into the final app itself, making deployment easier.
Best Answer
You can force-quit background processes using the Activity Monitor utility. Just find the Dock process (either sort the process list by name, or use the search field in the upper right), select it, then click the Quit button (the icon is an "X" in an octagon) in the upper left of the Activity Monitor window. It'll ask if you want to do a normal Quit or Force Quit.