How can I hide an open app icon from my dock?

[howruyes]

This is so annoying. I just purchased the Living Weather HD app for my new iMac but it persists on having an annoying icon on the dock 24/7 and even worse, the icon shows the current temperature outside as a little red bubble over the icon the same as Messages does when you have new messages. Very unappealing. I googled ways to remove the app icon and most said to change the .plist file for the app, but that doesn't work, I tried giving myself permission to read & write on the file but it still doesn't let me and says I "don't own this file." Any advice? I can't believe Apple doesn't have an option for something as minuscule and simple as this after all these years COME ON GUYS.

 

[Bruno09]

It says I "don't own this file." Any advice?

Select the .plist file.

Cmd + i (get infos)

In the bottom of the window, Sharing and Permissions, open the lock, highlight your user name, click the gear icon, and click "Make xxxx (Me) the owner".

 

[Weaselboy]

Select the .plist file.

Cmd + i (get infos)

In the bottom of the window, Sharing and Permissions, open the lock, highlight your user name, click the gear icon, and click "Make xxxx (Me) the owner".

Just to add on to Bruno's comment.... Mavericks now caches plist files, so if you edit a plist then restart the app it will pull up the cached copy and not your changed plist version. So you need to quit the app, edit your plist, then restart to flush the plist cache, then launch your app so the new plist takes effect.

 

[howruyes]

Select the .plist file.

Cmd + i (get infos)

In the bottom of the window, Sharing and Permissions, open the lock, highlight your user name, click the gear icon, and click "Make xxxx (Me) the owner".

I did what you said and I still got this upon trying to edit the "Info.plist" file:

"You don’t have permission to write to the folder that the file “Info.plist” is in.

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