Hiding from Dock? Mac?

[sawful1 0]

Hi Guys,

 

Any way to hide the app from the Dock? As in just have it showing in the Menu bar and not the Dock of the Mac?

 

Had a look through the preferences but couldn't see much! 

 

Cheers

[S.O.A. 83]

Sorry, there isn't a way to hide the icon. Maybe in one of the future releases AirVPN will have that feature.

[zhang888 1066]

Currently the only solution is Viscosity/Tunnelblick, but that Icon shouldn't be very disturbing

if you make them all smaller.

[JoeBean 0]

There's actually a fairly simple way to hide the dock icon:  Go to Applications, find AirVPN and right-click/ctrl-click and select Show Package Contents.  Open Contents folder.  Right-click/ctrl-click Info.plist and choose Open With, Other  and choose TextEdit (you can edit it in whatever xml editor you want, but TextEdit is available for anyone to use).  Scroll towards the end and you should see something like this:

	<key>DTXcode</key>
	<string>0630</string>
	<key>DTXcodeBuild</key>
	<string>6D570</string>
	<key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
	<string>Copyright © AirVPN Team</string>
</dict>

 

Add a key and value for LSUIElement,  like so:

	<key>DTXcode</key>
	<string>0630</string>
	<key>DTXcodeBuild</key>
	<string>6D570</string>
	<key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
	<string>Copyright © AirVPN Team</string>
	<key>LSUIElement</key>
	<string>1</string>
</dict>

 

That marks the application as a Launch Service, meaning there won't be a dock icon but there will still be the menu icon. 

[Heliotropen 0]

Is there any way to do this in Catalina? when I try it says it's "not signed" and won't start.

[Staff 9972]

@Heliotropen

Hello!

The problem you experience might be caused by the "pre-Catalina" version, i.e. the package signed and notarized for macOS systems older than Catalina, when it is installed on macOS Catalina and newer releases. Can you please check?

Kind regards