If you've ever tried to use Emacs in daemon mode on Mac OS, you might have noticed that after you close the last graphical Emacs client frame, the Emacs dock icon and menu bar become non-functional until you create a new graphical frame. This package implements nearly identical behavior to daemon mode using a simple hack: whenever the last graphical frame is closed, a new hidden frame is created. The next time Emacs is activated, the hidden frame is revealed. The result is essentially the same as using daemon mode, but without the drawbacks.

To turn the mode on or off, customize mac-pseudo-daemon-mode. If your Emacs config is shared across several different systems, feel free to enable the mode unconditionally. It has no effect on other systems.

In theory, this package can work on other systems besides Macs, causing Emacs to retain one iconified frame when you attempt to kill the last existing frame. However this is still an experimental feature. Customize macpd-mac-frame-types to try this feature.