showDockIcon: false not working on macOS

[jamiebullock]

Description

On macOS the dock icon is initially hidden, but when I click the menubar app, it appears, and the native app menu bar is also shown.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Launch one of the examples that comes with menubar, e.g. hello-world
2. Observe that no dock icon is visible
3. Click the menubar icon

Expected Behaviour

No dock icon appears when the menubar icon is clicked

Actual Behaviour

A dock icon appears, along with a set of main app menus (Electron, File, View, Window, Help)

Specifications

• Menubar version: 9.0.1
• Platform: macOS 10.15 and 11.0.1
• Electron version: v9.3.4

Other information

[jamiebullock]

OK, I can "fix" this if I put app.dock.hide(); in the after-create-window event handler. However, I think that if showDockIcon is false this shouldn't be necessary

[Zmaon]

Same here. Just got this issue after upgrading Electron and Menubar. Seems related to #296

[sirbrillig]

Also just noticed this. It worked before, but now it's not hiding the icon. Interestingly, I also tried setting LSUIElement in the Info.plist file (there seems to be conflicting information on how to set this, but I tried <real>1</real>, <string>1</string>, <string>YES</string>, and <true/> with the same result) and it doesn't seem to have any effect. Explicitly calling app.dock.hide did work; thank you for that!

[KYDronePilot]

The other solutions mentioned did not work consistently for me, so I ended up downgrading to Electron ~9.2.0. This temporarily fixes the issue.

[jamiebullock]

OK, an update...

The app.dock.hide() solution mentioned above seems to work on macOS 10.15 and 11.0.1. It does not work on macOS 11.1

However, for me setting LSUIElement to true does work on 11.1, so I now have both solutions in my app.

In case anyone is unsure, to add custom items to the Info.plist, they can added in the "Mac" key of the package.json like so:

"mac": {
      "extendInfo":{
        "LSUIElement": "true"
      },

[maxmandia]

any update on this?

[maxmandia]

must use showOnAllWorkspaces: false