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Can i get rid of the Terminal window?

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Dear developers, i’m excited to try your application out because i suspect that RescueTime doesn’t count durations properly and i don’t like the idea of my data on their servers.

On MacOS Sierra I launched ./aw-qt in the Terminal and the AW icon appeared in the system tray. But the Terminal window (actually, two windows now) is still on and if i close it, the icon disappears and i believe the app is not running any more. Is it possible to keep the app running without Terminal windows?

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:6 (4 by maintainers)

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exoji2ecommented, Jan 10, 2019

My PR removes the dock icon. If you don’t want to wait for a new release:

clone activitywatch
checkout my branch from your aw-qt repo inside activitywatch
run make build DEV=true
restart aw-qt

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exoji2ecommented, Jan 8, 2019

Hi!

Do you mean the automator with "run shell script" as an application? Yes that is similar to what I did (I installed from source, so my shell command looks a bit different)

I did not get the python-rocket to disappear from my dock either. (Regardless of what Erik said in some thread, I only got it to autostart) I don’t think it’s possible to solve with automater, since the problem seems to be with qt-applications. In this stackoverflow thread it seems to be possible to remove the dock icon with AppKit. I will see if I can get the time to look into integrating it into aw.