Re: on login, on logout...
Re: on login, on logout...
- Subject: Re: on login, on logout...
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:19:50 +0200
- Organization: ---
Michelle Steiner wrote:
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On 9/5/01 4:28 AM, Axel Luttgens <email@hidden> wrote:
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>The items put in users own "Startup Items" and "Shutdown Items" folders
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>may effectively be launched at login and logout.
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>But, this means that you have initially (and manually) put something in
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>those folders (and that you then have to manage that something for about
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>1500 people).
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>I sincerely would prefer some kind of centralized solution.
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Write a script to do it.
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--Michelle
Short, brief and concise ;-)
There's just one problem: when a users logs in for the first time, his
folder (and sub-folders) is created by Macintosh Manager. That is, you can't
have any startup and/or shutdown item at that moment.
And I need not only to be able to catch subsequent logins for control
purposes, but also the VERY FIRST login for initialization purposes that
Macintosh Manager is unable to perform.
Now, just putting items in the startup disk's "Startup Items" and "Shutdown
Items" folders doesn't work for what's called "restricted finder users"; for
such users, only items in their local folders are taken into account.
Egg-chicken problem.
But, if I could solve that egg-chicken problem, I would have a general
solution for it; and it then would be completley stupid to put an app into
each users folders (unless loving to manage hundreds of copies when one
suffices).
So, I could perhaps reformulate my initial post:
Is there a way to launch an app at Finder's startup without
using the "Startup Items" folder mechanism?
More generally, to have some Finder's related basic events
sent to that application once it is launched?
Could for example be an extension (but it should be rock solid and 100% OS
9.1 compatible).
Or some standard way I just don't think of.
Again, TIA!