I installed neo4j with homebrew and everything works great. It is just annoying how when I start the server I get an icon in my dock titled org.neo4j.server.Bootstrapper.
I had a similar icon with tomcat but I was able to easily remove it by adding java.awt.headless=true in to the catalina.properties config file. I tried adding the line to neo4j-server.properties and then neo4j.properties but I still got the icon.
Mac Version: Latest Mountain Lion (10.8.4 I think)
Neo4j Version: Community 1.9.2
Go to the conf file and open neo4j-wrapper.conf
(you find it from brew info neo4j
look after /usr/local/Cellar/neo4j/community-1.9-unix/libexec
check /usr/local/Cellar/neo4j/community-1.9-unix/libexec/conf/neo4j-wrapper.conf
open .)
And open up the neo4jwrapperfile
Before (Should be row 8 and 9)
wrapper.java.additional=-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
wrapper.java.additional=-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
Add this:
wrapper.java.additional=-Djava.awt.headless=true to to conf/neo4j-wrapper.conf
Good luck!