Programmer error. I was editing the wrong plist file. My bad. It is working as 
desired. Sorry for the noise.

Kevin

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On 13 Aug 2013, at 13:51, Kevin Meaney <k...@yvs.eu.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. I thought that it connecting to the window server might 
> be the problem. I've tried both the LSUIElement and LSBackgroundOnly in my 
> agent's plist. I assumed the plist for the launch agent app bundle not the 
> plist that is placed in ~/Library/LaunchAgents.
> 
> I've tried deleting the launch agent bundle multiple times, rebuilding the 
> launch services registry and multiple restarts in a belief that this setting 
> has been cached and hoped that doing one of these will get the setting 
> LSBackgroundOnly to take. So far without success.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 13 Aug 2013, at 13:11, "Quinn \"The Eskimo!\"" <eski...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 12 Aug 2013, at 18:58, Kevin Meaney <k...@yvs.eu.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The LaunchAgent is its own application bundle.
>> 
>> Bouncing in the dock just means that the process has connected to the window 
>> server.  The window server expects such processes to start an event loop and 
>> process events, and that's what stops the bouncing.  OTOH, not doing that is 
>> fine; the window server won't be too disappointed (-:
>> 
>> To prevent the agent showing up in the dock, just set LSBackgroundOnly in 
>> your agent's Info.plist.
>> 
>> <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/general/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/LaunchServicesKeys.html>
>> 
>> Share and Enjoy
>> --
>> Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
>> Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
>> 
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