[GNC] Dock Icon on Mac

[David T.]

My dock works, and has worked for a decade. Perhaps you are using GnuCash from two places: Applications, and the dmg? I say this because the “?” could happen after restart if the dock item were linked to a dmg file, and the dmg weren’t reloaded on restart. 

Similarly, a second dock item would suggest a second executable in a different location—although how the dock item could reference a different executable is beyond me. 

David T.

> On Jun 13, 2018, at 5:56 AM, Glen Byram via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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> I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6
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> I cannot get Gnucash to reside in the mac dock like other apps. I may have reported this issue before but I can’t find anything in gnucash-user and whatever solution I thought I had was only temporary.
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> 1)  The normal process for placing an app into the dock permanently is to just drag it from the place it is installed (usually the Applications folder) to a position on the dock that you want.
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> Once this is done, you should be able to launch the app from the resulting dock icon. The same icon should bounce as it launches, then stop with a dot under the icon to show it is active.
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> The behaviour I see is that a duplicate Gnucash icon appears at the end of the dock and it is this one that bounces/indicates active app. Although functionally OK, I don’t want 2 icons for the same app when its running one instance.
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> 2) I have tried the alternate method of keeping Gnucash in the dock; Make sure there are no Gnucash dock icons then launch it directly from the Applications folder. Once launched, right click on the active dock icon and select Options->Keep in dock. After that, I can move the icon to the position in the dock I want it to be. It now appears to work perfectly. Unfortunately, after I log out, or after some periods of sleep (not sure on the number-seems random) the Gnucash icon gets overlayed with a question mark indicating that the location of the app is now unknown – even though it has not changed and is still in the Applications folder. If I restart the machine when the Gnucash icon is working as expected, I get a grey question mark in the dock without even the Gnucash icon. Mousing over the grey question mark gives a Gnucash tooltip but of course it won’t launch as the location of Gnucash is unknown. The only option is to right click on the icon+question mark or question mark (by itself) and select Options->Remove from Dock.
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> As far as I can tell Gnucash is the only App I have that exhibits this behaviour. At the start, I thought I had fixed it using method 2 above. Then after several days the dreaded question mark appeared over the icon.
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> Other things I have tried include making an Alias for Gnucash and dragging that to the dock. It didn’t work and behaved like 1) above (duplicate app icon on launch).
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> I decided maybe the dock was corrupt so I did a reset to default: Terminal command; “defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock”
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> This meant I had to rebuild my preferred dock from scratch. There was no difference. All other app icons behaved as expected apart from Gnucash.
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> My conclusion is that Gnucash must have a launch process different to other apps and/or the drag/drop to dock processing must be different.
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> For the time being I tend to stick to Option 2 above as I prefer a single launch icon on the dock. When Gnucash eventually gets it’s inevitable question mark I remove it from dock then re-instate it as per 2) above. But it would be nice to have no need to do that. It’s not urgent or a matter of life and death but something to ponder.
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> Cheers
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> Glen
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