Mac OS X 10.8 Dock adding "Notes" and "Reminders" automatically even when a Casper Dock has been installed.

[egadsby]

Dear Friends,

When using Casper to define a Dock in 10.8 I have noticed that even when we load a custom dock on a client (either from plist or Dock created via Composer) that a new user's dock includes "Notes" and "Reminders" even if they were not present on the Casper provided dock. Has anybody else seen this behavior, if so how do you work around it? Thanks!

Peace,

Eric Gadsby
Goucher College

[Chris]

Hi,

have a look at the add-app key in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.dockfixup.plist.
You can remove unwanted entries from there with plistbuddy...

[ernstcs]

Or axe the file all together...

[egadsby]

Will give that a try, thanks!

[cbrewer]

Has anyone come up with a way to keep dockfixup from running? I don't like the idea of just deleting the file.

[timsutton]

If you don't like the idea of deleting the file, then just delete the 'add-app' key. I've been doing that since 10.6 and it's not caused any issues.

[Kumarasinghe]

We delete the add-app array to make it happen.

[cbrewer]

My thought is that there is obviously something that triggers dockfixup to run. If I'm not mistaken, it runs when a new home directory is created and when an existing home directory is launched for the first time after an OS upgrade. If we knew what triggered it, I'm sure we could trick it into not running.