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On Mac's application switcher I want to hide particular applications such as adium and terminal (especially terminal). Because I use them with global shortcuts and they're always running.

Is there a way to do that other than using third party software?

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Related, and another. – Daniel Beck Jun 15 '11 at 6:40
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To do this, you can modify the Application's Info.plist file. To get to this file, either cd into the Application (Apps are just directories) or, in Finder, right click on the app icon and choose "Show Package Contents". Then edit the Info.plist file in your favorite text editor (Or the Property List Editor if you have it installed) and add the following text (or add in the appropriate key/value in Property List Editor).

 <key>LSUIElement</key>
 <string>1</string>

Note that not only does this hide the dock icon, but it also hides the menu bar. Unfortunately I don't know of a way to only hide the dock icon.

Source, yes, it's old, but presumably it still works. Let me know if it doesn't.

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@Lri: Nice catch, thanks! – Wuffers Jun 15 '11 at 2:17
Property List Editor is obsolete with Xcode 4, has been integrated into Xcode itself. It still works. – Daniel Beck Jun 15 '11 at 6:40
thx for that it does what you described, but i was using visor for terminal and it was giving the opportunity to have a hotkey for it and unf it stops working if i put that to plist. Seems like i'll continue having the icon in app-switcher. thx anyway. – Sinan Y. Jun 15 '11 at 15:24
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