remove Finder icon from Dock

Thanks you so much! 🙂

This works, but sometimes when I close all my apps the Dock does a kind of relaunch and the Finder icon reapears.

I can remove it anytime but it's anoying to do so everytime 😟

Anyone know how to prevent this?

I'd like to have the messages icon removed from dock, while running, and have it do so automatically. Beasically the same as Apollo wanted to do with the Finder Icon. Will this script work for Messages Icon as well? Thanks for your help

This solution doesn't seem to work with Mavericks. Any new suggested modifications for OS 10.9?

Just find: 1) finder-running and 2) trash in the plist file and add at the end of both (but between the tags <array> and </array>) in both the following:

<dict>

<key>command</key>

<integer>1004</integer>

<key>name</key>

<string>REMOVE_FROM_DOCK</string>

</dict>

I did it with Text Wrangler.

It will let you show up the Remove From Dock Option when you click on the finder and trash icons on MAVERICKS.

Regards,

I have OS X 10.9 installed and I tried all the stuff metioned here, but the result is strange.

I run the terminal comand:

f=/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/DockMenus; sudo cp $f.plist $f-old.plist; sudo defaults write $f finder-running -array-add '<dict><key>command</key><integer>1004</integer><key>name</key><string>REMOVE_FROM_DOCK</string></dict>'; sudo chmod 644 $f.plist; osascript -e 'quit app "Dock"'

I created a AppleScrict Script and put it to autostart

tellapplication "System Events"

tell UI element "Finder" of list 1 of process "Dock"

perform action "AXShowMenu"

click the last menu item of menu 1

end tell

end tell

I changed the DockMenus.plist file and add this stuff as explained previously

1) finder-running

2) trash

in the plist file and add at the end of both (but between the tags <array> and </array>) in both the following:

<dict>

<key>command</key>

<integer>1004</integer>

<key>name</key>

<string>REMOVE_FROM_DOCK</string>

</dict>

Which is in the following path:

System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/DockMenus.plist

And I also used the Terminal command

killall Dock

At the end the Finder icon has the option to remove it from the dock, but there is still a glow that it's running, which is very ugly and moves if you open more apps as you can see in the screenshot. And the Scrict is always open after a restart of the laptop.

Do you know how to remove this ungly Finder remains?

I appreciate any help 🙂

Dear member,

How can I remove this hack (I am new on the mac world) ?

f=/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/DockMenus; sudo cp $f.plist $f-old.plist; sudo defaults write $f finder-running -array-add '<dict><key>command</key><integer>1004</integer><key>name</key><string>REMOVE_F ROM_DOCK</string></dict>'; sudo chmod 644 $f.plist; osascript -e 'quit app "Dock"'

And how can I generally remove hacks ?

Is where perhaps one folder with installed hacks ?

Very very thanks for your answer.

Message was edited by: ClaudeFinder

nandato wrote:

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I changed the DockMenus.plist file and add this stuff as explained previously

1) finder-running

2) trash

in the plist file and add at the end of both (but between the tags <array> and </array>) in both the following:

<dict>

<key>command</key>

<integer>1004</integer>

<key>name</key>

<string>REMOVE_FROM_DOCK</string>

</dict>

Which is in the following path:

System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/DockMenus.plist

Had the same problem, but the following AppleScript solved the issue for me (My previous configuration is what i quoted above):

my toggle_indicator_lights()

do shell script "killall Dock"

delay 3

tell application "System Events"

tell UI element "Finder" of list 1 of process "Dock"

perform action "AXShowMenu"

click the last menu item of menu 1

end tell

end tell

my toggle_indicator_lights()

on toggle_indicator_lights()

tell application "System Preferences"

set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.dock"

tell application "System Events"

tell process "System Preferences"

tell first window

clickcheckbox 3

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

quit application "System Preferences"

end toggle_indicator_lights

how can you disable this command?