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What does an application have to do that satisfies the dock system so it stops bouncing the app's icon?

I am writing an X11 app that runs via XQuartz. I can create an app bundle with an icon for the Desktop such that my app runs fine when I double-click it, but the icon in the dock bounces forever.

I am aware of the dock feature that allows turning off bouncing for all apps, that's not what I need.

Thanks for any info.

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  • Perhaps all apps set a “ready” flag so the icon then stops bouncing.
    – Solar Mike
    Commented Jan 25, 2021 at 4:55

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An application's icon will bounce in the macOS Dock until the application enters its main event loop and begins responding to user input.

See How do I make the dock icon stop bouncing after my app wrapper script starts?

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The answer: the dock icon will bounce until the parent app process exits.

Therefore the solution is to fork a new process for your real app and have the parent exit. That's all there is to it.

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    I'm glad you found a solution (and told us about it), but there has got to be a better way than that! Most apps don't just start a sub-process and exit.
    – Wowfunhappy
    Commented Feb 7, 2021 at 6:12

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