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So I have an application thats constantly running on the desktop.

When an application is running, it shows up in the dash. I would like to hide it in the Dash, so in the Dash it looks like that it is not even running. Is this possible?

To make it easier to understand, open terminal and run: sudo nautilus

It opens nautilus but is nowhere on the Dash. I would like to do the same thing to a specific application.

OctaVIve
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  • Unavoidably, running applications of the current user's x-session with a window appear in Dash, *unless* you unmap the window. Is it important the window is visibly present? – Jacob Vlijm Dec 14 '16 at 21:49
  • The thing is that I have a dock at the bottom. Im using a W7 VM as seamless mode in virtualbox. I made the startup script so far but the vbox icon is on the dash which I dont want. – OctaVIve Dec 14 '16 at 21:54
  • Just pointing out to don't use sudo with graphical apps. – xangua Dec 14 '16 at 21:56
  • I know. But I am giving an example. – OctaVIve Dec 14 '16 at 21:57
  • Would a shortcut key to toggle visibility be an option? Hidden means it would also not show an icon. – Jacob Vlijm Dec 14 '16 at 22:12
  • Application still has to be visible on desktop but not on dash. – OctaVIve Dec 14 '16 at 22:23
  • Unfortunately, that does not exist without breaking into the sourcecode and recompile. Not the kind of job we do here usually. – Jacob Vlijm Dec 14 '16 at 22:26
  • @JacobVlijm suggest something like `xdotool windowunmap $(wmctrl -l -p | grep $(pgrep procName) | cut -d' ' -f1)`, [this](https://askubuntu.com/a/798408/349837) seems exactly what you want. Not tried on Wayland yet – Pablo Bianchi Sep 17 '22 at 07:07

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