Remove app from dock and quit, when closing app window

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Remove app from dock and quit, when closing app window

Hi,

I'd like to address a question I am fighting for years and I beliebe I am not alone in this world...

I have some apps, which I use practically every day (about 20 of them) and I put their icons on the dock for conviniece.

I also have some apps, which I use about once in a week (about 11 of them).

And have a group of apps I barely use once in a month.

I'd like to have a choice that the apps from the second and the third groups will be closed and removed from the dock when I click on the red cross.

How to do that?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Nov 15, 2020 1:09 PM

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BDAqua

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Nov 15, 2020 2:56 PM in response to PavProsk

What red cross???

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PavProsk Author

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Nov 16, 2020 8:58 AM in response to PavProsk

Well... Thats what I and most of us (hope there is anybody, who knows how to do it differently) do every time. And I am sick and tired to repeat again and again the same three steps! My question, if you try to read it, was formulated as: "app will be closed (quit) and removed from the dock when I click on the red cross." Not that 1) I click on the red circle, 2) quith the app and 3) remove from the dock!!! That is NOT the answer I was looking for. Please! Enybody with a knowledge about it! May be I can use Automater for that? May be I can use Terminal for that? Anything on MY question, please. Not something about something...

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BDAqua

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Nov 16, 2020 10:08 AM in response to PavProsk

Remove an item from the Dock: Drag the item out of the Dock until you see Remove. Only the alias is removed; the actual item remains on your Mac.

If you accidentally remove an app icon from the Dock, it’s easy to put it back (the app is still on your Mac). Open the app to make its icon appear again in the Dock. Control-click the app’s icon, then choose Options > Keep in Dock.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/dock-mh35859/mac

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