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@gnucash.org> wrote: > > I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6 > > 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. > > > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > 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). > > I decided maybe the dock was corrupt so I did a reset to default: Terminal > command; “defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock” > > 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. > > > > 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. > > 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. > > > > Cheers > > Glen > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
