Re: delete the entry from loginwindow.plist using command
Re: delete the entry from loginwindow.plist using command
- Subject: Re: delete the entry from loginwindow.plist using command
- From: Mike Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:16:02 +0100
Am 30.01.2008 um 05:52 schrieb sunil prajapati:
How can I launch my application at login time for each user?
Because I know only one way that is loginwindow.plist. As u said
loginwindow.plist is managed by system so don't do anything with
this. So please suggest some other method to launch my application
at login time.
Did you read the technote I referenced in my answer? Did you look at
the sample code I mentioned? If not, please do so, as the answers are
all there.
Also since the file "loginwindow.plist" is located in each users ~/
Library/Preferences/ folder modifying one (directly or as suggested
by the technote and sample code) will not affect other users in any
way. If you need to launch something for *any* user at login then the
sample code will likely not help you. Instead you should carefully
read the technote.
Since you did not state the actual (high-level) task you are trying
to accomplish or the minimum system version you need to support I
can't give any more advice than to read.
HTH
Mike
PS. Please don't continue discussions off the mailing list. Others
might be interested in the answers and others might chime in with
useful tipps.
On Jan 30, 2008 2:31 AM, Mike Fischer <email@hidden> wrote:
Am 29.01.2008 um 21:07 schrieb "sunil prajapati"
<email@hidden>:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I successfully entered my application in loginwindow.plist through
> command
> line. But unable to delete that entry.
Does this have anything to do with the topic of this mailing list?
> How to remove the my added entry from loginwindow.plist from
> command line
> or shells script?
First of all the loginwindow.plist is an implementation detail
managed by the system. You should not access it directly. You should
most definitely not modify this file!
>> From net I found one script which remove the entry from
> loginwindow.plist,but
> it remove whole entries from the plist.
>
> The command is:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> theApp="your app"
> nl=`echo "x" | tr 'x' '\34'` # what is the proper way to set ascii
> to a
> variable?
> aaa=`defaults read loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary`
> bbb=`echo -n "$aaa" | sed "s/^[()]$//;s/},/}$nl/" | tr '\n\34' '\00
> \n'| grep
> -va "$theApp" | tr '\n\00' ',\n' | sed 's/^,$//'`
> defaults write loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary
"($bbb)"
>
> Waiting for helpful reply.
This is just one of the problems you encounter when accessing this
file directly. From your question it seems that you want to add and
remove Login Items, correct? As you probably noticed there are no
official APIs for this.
Depending on your needs you might consider either launchd(8)
(LaunchAgents, 10.5+ only). Or if you really need a Login Item then
you should use the Apple sanctioned method shown in the Sample Code
project 'LoginItemsAE' (<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/
LoginItemsAE/index.html>). It's not an API but it get's the job done
in a way that is not totally broken and dangerous like your code
above.
See: <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html>
> --
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Sunil Prajapati
> Software Developer in Macintosh
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Mike
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