I've been running a calculation in parallel that requires a rasterize, and doing this requires one to wrap the rasterization with a UsingFrontEnd
command (as is described here). When I do this, my dock is populated by a number of Mathematica icons equal to the number of parallel kernels I use, and then auto-hides them, dimming the icons, but not removing them from the dock:
Does Mathematica do this whenever UsingFrontEnd
is used within a parallel routine? I also recall some other instances where this occurs within a Parallel call where I haven't explicitly called UsingFrontEnd
, so I'm presuming that this occurs even for implicit launches of the front end.
It's quite annoying to pollute the dock with 8 (or more) icons, so it's something I'd to avoid if possible. But my question is more why does Mathematica behave in this way? I should also mention that the icons remain in the dock even after the parallel operation has completed.