Removing an OSX dock icon

Scott Morrow scott at elementarysoftware.com
Wed Jul 23 00:12:40 EDT 2008


Hello Ken,

Thanks a bunch.  I didn't know about PlistBuddy.  I've got it working  
now!

Scott Morrow

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On Jul 22, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

>
>> With the following I'm able to add an icon to the OSX dock.  I'm
>> wondering if anyone knows (or would care to guess) how to remove an
>> icon from the dock... besides dragging it off  :  )
>
> Take a look at the "PlistBuddy" command line file that ships in the  
> bundles
> of a lot of software on the Mac. Under Leopard, there should be one at
> /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy.
>
> If you run it with the -h parameter, you can get the list of what  
> you can do
> with it. Then you can use it with the Dock's plist file
> (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist).
>
> For example, to delete the item in the 13th app slot on the dock  
> (you'd need
> to run PlistBuddy with other configs to determine the slot number),  
> you can
> execute this:
>
> /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Delete persistent-apps:13"
> ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
>
> And then reload the dock with "killall Dock"). It's a real PITA, but  
> it
> works pretty well.
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
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