Neo4j on Mac: Prevent org.neo4j.server.Bootstrapper from appearing in dock

Question

I installed neo4j with homebrew and everything works great. It is just annoying how when I start the server I get an icon in my dock titled org.neo4j.server.Bootstrapper.

I had a similar icon with tomcat but I was able to easily remove it by adding java.awt.headless=true in to the catalina.properties config file. I tried adding the line to neo4j-server.properties and then neo4j.properties but I still got the icon.

Mac Version: Latest Mountain Lion (10.8.4 I think)

Neo4j Version: Community 1.9.2

Answer 1

Go to the conf file and open neo4j-wrapper.conf

(you find it from brew info neo4j

look after /usr/local/Cellar/neo4j/community-1.9-unix/libexec

check /usr/local/Cellar/neo4j/community-1.9-unix/libexec/conf/neo4j-wrapper.conf

open .)

And open up the neo4jwrapperfile

Before (Should be row 8 and 9)

wrapper.java.additional=-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
wrapper.java.additional=-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled 

Add this:

wrapper.java.additional=-Djava.awt.headless=true to to conf/neo4j-wrapper.conf 

Good luck!