Nope I don't do that. The only time I ever even open the .dmg file is when I
download an update. I then drag the 2 Apps to the Applications folder
overwriting the existing ones. TBH I have never used the Finance Quote Update
app but copy it anyway.
My dock works fine too - with every single other app in the Applications folder
(and Utilities and elsewhere).
When I have the 2 icons up at once, 1 active and 1 inactive, if I right click
on them and do "Options->Show in Finder", in each case it points correctly to
Gnucash in Applications.
The only other thing I have considered is that I open the App with a data file
active (my personal finances). Could it be something to do with the location of
that data file?
Cheers,
Glen
On 13/06/2018, 12:56, "gnucash-user on behalf of David T. via gnucash-user"
<gnucash-user-bounces+glen83501=gmail....@gnucash.org on behalf of
gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
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
>
>
>
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