QUOTE(Wizard Sleeve @ Tue Jan 30 2007, 09:10) [snapback]352238[/snapback]
Hi all
Just wondering if anyone has managed to hide the dock icon for skype, I would like it if just the menu bar icon was visable and no dock icon as for me its not nessusary to have it visable. I played around with the info.plist but sadly couldent make it hide using:
<KEY>NSUIElement</KEY>
<STRING>1</STRING>
Any tips if not i would personally like this as an option to turn off the dock icon if you have the menubar icon active.
Thanks
Lee
It's possible. You were on the right track, but, the info.pllist file is cached, as of OS X v10.3 (You need to move the Skype.app file somewhere else, run it and move it back. Well, you deffintly need to move it, not sure if running it is completely necessary).
Full guide thingy:
- Right click->Show package contents.
- Go to the Contents folder
- Double click the Info.plist file (It'll open in the Property LIst Editor)
- Click the triangle on Root.
- Single-click root, press the New Child button, type the name as NSUIElement, and a value of 1
- Press return, File>Save, File>Quit
(And the important bit you never done)
- Move the skype.app file to your desktop (or any other folder), launch it. If you have Skype in your dock always, drag it out, and it'll disapear. You can then drag Skype back to your application folder.
That's it. It'd be much nicer just to have a preference option for it, but this works.
Other small note: If you happen to lose your menu-bar icon for skype, you can get back to the skype menu by double-clicking the Skype.app - Although if your techically minded enough to want Skype out your Dock, and happy editing plist files, I imagine you could work that out

Slight bug: Because I moved skype, ran it then moved it again, it has problems with opening the preferences (Icons missing and such). You'll need to relaunch skype when you move it back
- Ben