Well, the title says it all:
Can I edit the Info.plist of an App so that is always starts hidden?
1 Answer
Open the info.plist in textedit and check if the key "LSUIElement" exist. If not, then add the following piece of code.
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>
If it does, then just change the key from <true/> to <false/>.
answered Jan 8, 2012 at 8:12
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I have changed the permission using chmod. Yet, I can't save changes because the file is locked.– gentmattJan 8, 2012 at 8:26
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Save the file to your desktop, then copy it to the original location Jan 8, 2012 at 8:52
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I've tried this with the Twitter.app. Now I have to enter the password every time I open twitter....– gentmattJan 8, 2012 at 9:02
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1@theAmateurProgrammer Note the change I made so that your markup actually shows up plain. Stack Exchange tries to render html tags automatically, so it just ate your tags. Use a 4 space prefix to denote blocks (across multiple lines) of code, or backtick pairs to denote inline code lines. Jan 8, 2012 at 9:19
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This does not make the app start hidden (i.e. like
Cmd-H), but removed the Dock icon and menu bar. Jan 26, 2012 at 19:02