Dock icon is stuck in the dock! Ugh.

[Daveway]

I have no idea how this happened but as you can see, the dock icon is actually in the dock. And since you have to quit it to remove it, you must quit the dock which makes it impossible.
I have looked through all the preference files and edited property lists to no avail. Any suggestions?

And I have restarted it, repaired permissions, etc.

 

[tersono]

Firstly, right click the dock icon and select 'remove from dock'.

Then, open terminal and type the following

killall Dock

(note that capitalisation is important)

The dock should quit and re-start, and the icon should now be gone.

 

[Daveway]

That's not exactly an option. Also, clicking force quit just quits the dock. And the dock is not hagging because it works perfectly normal, so no idea why it says not responding.

 

[Mac OS X Ocelot]

Wow, what an ugly Dock icon. Anyway, that's a weird problem to have. It doesn't work like that in Tiger. Putting it in the Dock doesn't show that it's open (with the triangle) and clicking it does nothing. What possessed you to do it in the first place?

 

[tersono]

That's not exactly an option. Also, clicking force quit just quits the dock. And the dock is not hagging because it works perfectly normal, so no idea why it says not responding.

Now that IS weird.... The procedure I described SHOULD work. Hmm....

My only remaining thought is that the dock prefs may be corrupt. I've no idea whether this will work s I can't replicate the problem here, but try starting in safe mode (hold down shift). When the system gets to the desktop, delete com.apple.dock.plist and com.apple.doc.db from ~/library/preferences/ then immediately reboot (normal boot this time).

Good luck! =]

 

[nimr0d]

Just found this post through google, having the same exact problem, anyone ever come up with a fix?