Why don't you make it a regular Cocoa app that doesn't open any windows and doesn't have a dock icon?
--- On Thu, 10/16/08, XiaoGang Li <email@hidden> wrote:
> From: XiaoGang Li <email@hidden>
> Subject: how to use the loginItem in OSX 10.3?
> To: email@hidden
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 2:27 AM
> hi, list,
> I have a task that a cmd-line utility should be
> launched when user
> login window on OSX 10.3.9. this cmd-line utility bind to a
> socket port and
> listen message from low-level server. I means that the
> cmd-utility will not
> quit until the user logout. acutally, I know I should use
> launchd method to
> implement this feature in 10.4 or later . but in OSX
> 10.3.9, I have
> encountered some problems.
> At first, I planned to use login Items, add item in
> the
> loginwindow.plist in the user's directory. I can add
> the cmd-line utility to
> the login item list of current user when the user login
> window. but one
> terminal (console) popup every time. this is a big problem,
> so
> unsatisfied for me, I need it to run as a daemon.
> Second, i use the unrecommended way : add a plist file
> to the path:
> /etc/mach_init_per_user.d directory. but it seems not work.
> what should i do
> anything else?
> I am sorry that if i put this mail in a wrong list.
> Any comments will
> be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Andrew
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