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JavaFX application hide OSX dock icon

I need to hide the dock icon of my javafx application. In a normal java application this can be achieved by the following property:

System.setProperty("apple.awt.UIElement", "true");

However, this does not seems to work with JavaFX.

Thanks!

Solution

  • Just tried it. You have to modify *.app/Contents/Info.plist and add

    <key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

    Simple example:

        <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
     <dict>
     <key>LSUIElement</key>
    <string>1</string>
...

    For me it worked on bundled javaFX apps