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org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap appearing in dock

FYI: If you’re developing a Java web application using Tomcat on Mac OS X and you see:

org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

appearing in the dock, you need to add:

export JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true"

to your startup script.

Source:
· Installing Tomcat on OS X
· Decapitating java.awt

So what if you are seeing this on your desktop and you are not developing a Java web application using Tomcat (or anything else)? What is the fix?

Finally….
Thanks

Regards

Excuse my ignorance, but when you say “add to my startup script” which script is that exactly? Is it startup.sh or catalina.sh or something else? And where in the script should it be added?