Remove/hide Finder icon from dock.

[mcsolas]

I know the 'desktop' is technically a Finder display, and thus the dock 'always' displays it.

The thing is.. I never use that icon. I usually launch finder windows in this manner - I click the desktop (if its not already the active app), then hit CMD-N or CMD-F or both (hitting them in succession quickly opens 2 finder windows).

I already wanted it to go, but now that I see the new icon in v 10.10.. I really want it gone.

How can I hide that icon from the dock?

 

[Gregg2]

I've seen this question before. Unless there is a new feature, I don't think it's possible. But, you didn't mention what OS version you're running.

 

[mcsolas]

I've seen this question before. Unless there is a new feature, I don't think it's possible. But, you didn't mention what OS version you're running.

I just tried the new update - v 10.10, Yosemite. Once I saw they didn't fix this quite ridiculous dock 'feature' - cant move that icon, or delete it. I see something like that as a reason to learn a little more about OSX.. I also thought about it, maybe there is some dock utilities that address this as part of their features, Im going to look around to try and see. I saw a few tutorials, but the methods varied quite a lot and a few up them indicated to go in & modify the finder app itself, which seems to me likely that this 'fix' would potentially be lost on future app updates. Thus I decided to ask here...

 

[10tacleBoy]

Have you tried this?
http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Finder-Icon-from-Dock
First search result on Google.

 

[mcsolas]

Have you tried this?
http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Finder-Icon-from-Dock
First search result on Google.

I saw a few tutorials, but the methods varied quite a lot and a few up them indicated to go in & modify the finder app itself, which seems to me likely that this 'fix' would potentially be lost on future app updates. Thus I decided to ask here...

LOL. I guess you skipped this part of the thread. No need for sarcasm, I am just trying to improve the UI and thought there might be others interested in this mod as well.

... BTW I tried that tutorial out it doesn't appear to work. I found the files, removed them, ran the command killall Dock.. saw the screen flash, but it came right back up the same way... so we can scratch that one off the list.

 

[10tacleBoy]

Oh boy, I skipped that part indeed! Shame on me.
Sorry, can't help you with that.

 

[mcsolas]

No worries Did some more reading and this one looks promising.

From the last post on this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4659963?start=0&tstart=0

So the best way to have your Finder icon always gone, is to make a small applescript which clicks the "Remove from Dock" option FOR you, and then put that applescript in your login items.

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
          tell UI element "Finder" of list 1
                    perform action "AXShowMenu"
                    click menu item "Remove from Dock" of menu 1
          end tell
end tell

The part I don't follow is how to "make a small applescript which clicks the "Remove from Dock" option FOR you, and then put that applescript in your login items."

I posted in another thread the other day about this.. from what I learned there I think I have to save this script as an .app file, add it to my apps folder, then add it to the apps that load on login. Going to look into this now.