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hiding running app from Dock

  • May 15, 2020
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we're deploying a VPN client that has both a Dock icon and menu bar icon. I want to hide the Dock icon when it's running.

I searched and found that this can be accomplished by using Plistbuddy to add a key to the Info.plist in the app bundle.

 /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Add :LSUIElement bool true' /Applications/Aviatrix VPN Client.app/Contents/Info.plist

If I run it from the terminal (as current user, or root), it works as expected, I can open the app and the Dock icon is hidden.

But I run from Jamf (via a script in a policy that installs the app package), the Info.plist gets modified, but the app will not open.

Any ideas?

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    • gajones
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    • May 15, 2020

    in the logs: The code contains a Team ID, but validating its signature failed.

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    • May 15, 2020

    I'm actually surprised the app ran after your first modification (manually in Terminal) as it modified the app bundle and invalidated the code signing.


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