site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com For (2), you have 3 solutions: - add the application to the LoginItems - use a LaunchAgent thanks for the response. thanks for any help with this, j _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... For (1), you can't run any application during boot time if it includes a User Interface and one of the solutions is to use LaunchDaemons. - use another API you can get information on by contacting DTS. sorry for not being clear; i meant the app should run on login for the user who ran the installer. another responder suggested using defaults or PListBuddy to add an entry to ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist . ideally there would be a more elegant solution. for the first option, would I create a symlink or alias to ~/LoginItems to the application? this is going to get done in a postinstall script (unless there's a better place for it). This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com