Re: How to make an app launch on login?
Re: How to make an app launch on login?
- Subject: Re: How to make an app launch on login?
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:14:46 -0400
I use a super useful and nice little tool for iOS called SimulatorManager that has the option to make it an item that is launched at startup.
It probably contains the code you need.
It is here:
https://github.com/tue-savvy/SimulatorManager
Hope this helps.
Alex Zavatone
On Apr 19, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> One of my companies’ apps has a “Launch at login” pref, which no longer works in OS X 10.11. I’m not surprised, since the existing code implements this by writing into loginwindow’s user defaults :-p
>
> I’m trying to find the currently supported API for this. The “Adding Login Items” page says:
>> There are two ways to add a login item: using the Service Management framework, and using a shared file list.
>> Login items installed using the Service Management framework are not visible in System Preferences and can only be removed by the application that installed them.
>> Login items installed using a shared file list are visible in System Preferences; users have direct control over them.
>
> I’d definitely prefer the latter, since it seems like a bad idea to have the app not show up in the user’s login-item list in the Accounts system pref.
>
> I found LSSharedFileList.h, but everything in there is marked deprecated. :(
>
> What are my options?
>
> —Jens
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