How to remove Finder Icon and Trash from Dock

[Anonymous]

Now that I hvae Path Finer working, and enjoying it. How can I hide or remove the Finder Icon and Trach Icon from the Dock?

Cheers
Mike

[Anonymous]

I will ove this too

[christefano]

TransparentDock (http://freerangemac.com) is an AppleScript Studio utility that will make the Finder movable (and removable) in the Dock.

Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4.9. The reasons why have been given a comment at MacUpdate (http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=6490&pid=164479).

[k3vin]

TransparentDock doesn't work with Intel based macs either. :-( I am looking to figure out this problem also. Any other possible suggestions?

Off topic though, if you want the transparent dock effect, a great alternative to TransparentDock that works on Intel is Cleardock. But it only changes your dock background color and not remove Finder.

[maleko]

A full Finder replacement can be done and that will fix this.
1. Copy your Finder from CoreServices to /Applications using Path Finder (you will need to authenticate). Next, use the Finder to rename the Path Finder to Finder. Then copy the re-named Path Finder to CoreServices.
2. Repair permissions and re-boot.
3. Next into the Path Finder resources folder and copy the file /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/PathFinder.icns to a temporary folder like the desktop. Rename it to FinderIcon.icns.
4. Move your new FinderIcon.icns to /System/Library/CoreServices/Core Types.bundle/Contents/Resources/. Replace the existing FinderIcon.icns with the new Path Finder one.
5. Delete the file /Library/Caches/com.apple.dock.iconcache.xxx (x represents some number that will be different for each user.
6. Repair permissions and re-boot.

If you don't want to do a full replacement, I don't think there is a way to get the finder out of the dock.

**edit** this will not work in 10.4.9 I'm looking into it more now

[maleko]

I got this hack to work in 10.4.9 but it requires some modification of .plist files inside of the Dock.app itself. Just remove the Finder strings from the Info.plist. For this reason I would not reccomend doing it because the only way to reverse it is to but the old dock back or re-install. Simply putting back the old .plist's doesn't seem to work.