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Hide X11 from Dock and CMD-Tab?
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Dec 2, 2004, 05:26 PM
 
Feel free to be mean to me if this is a silly question, but...

...Is it possible to hide X11 from the dock and CMD-tab pop-ups? (So X11 behaves the way Classic does?)

I only use X11 for MATLAB, and it'd be nice to have one less item cluttering things up (as I rarely use the X11 interface/prefs directly)
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Dec 2, 2004, 06:24 PM
 
Thanks for the idea; I also pretty much only use X11 for Matlab, and am happy to reclaim the Dock space.

1. Open /Applications/X11.app
2. Right-click, Show Package Contents
3. Open Contents
4. Open Info.plist in your text editor of choice, or Property List Editor if you have DevTools installed.
5. In the main <dict> section (say, below CFBundleDevelopmentRegion) add the following:
Code:
<key>NSUIElement</key> <string>1</string>
6. Save.
7. Very important: Drag X11.app onto your Desktop. OS 10.3 caches Info.plist files, so your change won't get noticed right away otherwise.
8. Double-click and enjoy the silence in the dock.
9. Move X11.app back to /Applications.
(Last edited by Mithras; Dec 2, 2004 at 06:29 PM. )
     
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Dec 2, 2004, 07:33 PM
 
Excellent... thanks.
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