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Hide icon from Dock and show in menubar only

#3421

Hi there,

please consider to implement an option to hide the Dock icon, and only show MailMate in the Menubar.

Also, a Hotkey to toggle visibility.

(basically, just the same way many other apps do this...)

Thank you.

Reported by David · March 3rd, 2025 @ 11:55 AM

State: bluesky
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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  1. benny
    benny

    The interface is pretty bad but you should go into the Counters settings pane of MailMate. Then note that each dot represents a different counter (of the 4 possible counters). Enable/disable dock/menu counters for each of them to get your desired result.

    March 3rd, 2025 @ 01:55 PM

  2. David
    David

    Thank you for your reply @benny,

    i was aware of that, and have disabled the "in Dock" checkbox for all 4 corners;

    Unfortunately, the MailMate icon is still shown in the Dock...(without any of the "count dots".)

    March 4th, 2025 @ 11:14 AM

  3. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to bluesky

    Ah, you want to completely get rid of the dock icon. Sorry, that's not possible and I think the combination of a menu and no dock icon is not easily supported.

    March 4th, 2025 @ 11:32 AM

  4. David
    David

    Oh right i see.

    Well hopefully you can add it to the roadmap as a feature request, as many (popular) apps are in my menubar right now, and have a checkbox "Hide from dock" in the settings. But i think you are aware of that already;

    Anyways, so i assume there must be a way to do it...

    Thank you!

    March 5th, 2025 @ 10:24 AM

  5. benny
    benny

    Possibly, but I couldn't find anything in Apple's API (or with a quick Google search) which would remove the dock icon while preserving the main menu.

    March 5th, 2025 @ 07:20 PM

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