Questions tagged [login-items]
The list of applications and volumes which are launched when a user logs in to OS X.
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How to determine details of backgound process?
In my system settings on macOS Sonoma I see a bunch of apps in the "Allow in Background" for example in the screenshot there are there are several entries for Docker. How do I find out ...
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How to run a script on login that can capture camera output
I have the following shell script:
#!/bin/bash
time=$(time);
imagesnap -q "/var/captures/$time.jpg";
When I run it in the terminal, everything works. But when I run it using launchtl or ...
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Add "Allow in the background" items from command line
Some of the applications on my system run only if they are allowed to run in the background. I want to run these apps only in certain time windows.
Due to this, I am manually enabling the app in ...
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Set Environment Variable for specific application that starts at login
I need to set an env var for an app on MacOs. This is an app that I want to run on startup (currently via Login Items). I can set the env var as a LaunchAgent plist file with the RunAtLoad key set ...
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Who's Nikita Borodulin from Settings > Login Items? [duplicate]
On macOS Ventura 13.3.1 (a) in Settings, in Login Items there's an entry "Nikita Borodulin 3 items: 3 items affect all users". Who's this person?
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macOS Ventura 13.2+ Login Items removed on start up
I have downloaded the app Magnet and added it to my Login Items under System Settings → General → Login Items. When I login / logout from lock there is no problem. When I restart my computer, however, ...
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How to remove "Login Item" Mac 13.1 Ventura
I've read the other "How to remove login item" answers, and they don't apply here.
I get 9 warnings like this after a reboot:
I opened the Settings app (MacOS 13.1 Ventura), and found "...
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Help with osascript Command to Hide Login Item on MacOS Ventura
I'm attempting to use the following command in Terminal on MacOS 13.2.1 to add WebDrive.app to my login items hidden (or even just minimized) on MacOS, since there appears to be no way to do it with ...
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Why do I see “ln” listed in the login items? [duplicate]
I'm currently using macOS Ventura 13.1 on my i5 Macbook Pro 2020. After updating to this version, some unexpected behavior has arose, such as "Steam" added items that can run in the ...
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How can I stop getting "Google Updater" added items that can run in the background notification?
I keep getting this notification, I don't know if Chrome tries to add those items to "Allow in the Background" setting but it's a bit annoying as I would like to keep Settings notifications.
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Launch two or more Google Chrome apps on login, preferably minimized/hidden
I'm using macOS Ventura and I'd like to launch both Gmail and Google Calendar apps on startup/login.
Both apps were "installed" via Chrome's Create Shortcut... option that essentially ...
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XQuartz setting default shell for xterm under Ventura
In a clean rebuild of Ventura, my default shell is /bin/zsh. For instance, that is what shows up in a Terminal.app terminal. If I start an xterm (launched from XQuartz 2.8.4), the shell shown in $...
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macOS Ventura has two copies of Postgres in Login Items
Just notice my Mac (running macOS Ventura 13.1) has two copies of postgres listed as Login Items in System Settings > General > Login Items. Clicking on the (i) button for EITHER one opens a ...
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Charlie Stigler and other random items running in the background?
I have a MacBook Pro with macOS Ventura 13.0.
In System Settings -> General -> Login Items, I discovered that a random Charlie Stigler item was running in the background. I have no idea what ...
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macOS `launchctl load` problem with <ProgramArguments>
I have little misunderstandng why my ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.loginscript.plist doesn't work.
Here is NOT working code inside my plist:
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<...
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Where do the "Allow in the Background" login items in the macOS Ventura System Settings come from?
I have some mysterious entries in the Login Items > Allow in the Background section in the macOS Ventura System settings.
How can I find out more information about them, such as their command-line ...
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Starting a few days ago, I have multiple unwanted app launches on startup. Help!
Starting a few days ago, several apps have begun to launch on startup, without my having set them to do so.
None of them show up in "Login Items." None of them show "Open at login" ...
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OneDrive.app keeps getting removed from Login Items
I want the OneDrive.app to start automatically on startup. I add it to the Login Items section but it gets removed from there after some time automatically. How can I fix this? I am using Big Sur and ...
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A new user titled "other" has suddenly appeared on my login
I have tried to disable root user but when I get to the edit menu in the Directory Utility the option showing is "Enable Root User" so I'm guessing it's currently disabled.
I also have the ...
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How to open "Login Items" in "System Settings" programmatically in MacOS 13 - Ventura?
I want to open "Login Items" of System Settings in MacOS Ventura(13.0) programatically.
For example, to open "Notifications", i can use the following
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x-apple.systempreferences:...
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accumulating terminal profiles
I have a "login item" which runs a short Perl script. It is a *.terminal file simply because I don't know how else to run a script as a login item (ie. there is no input or output). It works ...
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How can I remove a persistent attempt by macOS to auto-mount network volume after it was removed from the Users & Groups login items
I have a 2019 MacBook Pro running macOS Monterey 12.3.1
I used to have an item for my user in System Preferences>Users & Groups>Login Items that would auto-mount my NAS volume using my ...
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App to toggle login apps [closed]
Is there an app to toggle login apps? I don't want junk like CleanMyMac, just a barebones toggle app.
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How does Hocus Focus run automatically at login?
I've been using an application "Hocus Focus" ever since I upgraded to a MacBook M1 running Big Sur (I don't remember what I was using before, but it wasn't compatible).
Today I upgraded to ...
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What does this specific “Login item” do?
I’m troubleshooting a MacBook and looking at the Login items. I see two whose kind is “Unknown” and which have a yellow alert icon next to them. But I have no idea what they are intended to do. How ...
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Keychain Access app opens on login Big Sur. Did not set as login item
For the past day, Keychain Access has been opening on login on my M1 MacBook Air running Big Sur 11.3. Did not set it as a login item.
What could be the cause and what should I do to check for any ...
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How to remove unremovable network drive login item?
When I reboot my MacBook Pro (11.3 now, but it's been happening for years) the reboot pauses for about a minute, after which it tells me there was a problem connecting to a certain defunct network ...
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How to stop a Mac app from launching at startup?
How can I stop an app from launching at startup when:
right click on the app on the dock > options > open at login is not ticked.
the app is not on the login items list (System Preferences > ...
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How to delete hidden login iterms from backgrounditems.btm? CML way is prefered
I am running MacOS Big Sur. I installed some apps downloaded online. I found out many apps were started automatically at startup.
By googling and examining my system, I figured out they were started ...
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How can I troubleshoot this re-occuring prompt to give a mysterious app security access?
EDIT: Found some files, not sure if deleting them will fix the issue though. Does anybody know if I can just delete these?:
For a couple months now, I've been getting this error, periodically, a few ...
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How do I find and kill an application which keeps restarting?
I am writing an application in Swift and I have attempted to allow it to launch at login by following a number of tutorials. This involves creating a launcher application and enabling it using ...
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How do I disable "modern login items" (shared helper applications) which don't show up in system login items? [duplicate]
Spotify auto-launches even if I tell it not to from within its own preferences.
It does not seem to be started through any of the "classic" means of auto starting a program - i.e. Login ...
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How to launch Trello on Login as menubar item?
Is there a way to launch Trello app on Login or startup, in menubar only state.
Menubar only state :
There's a window style dropdown option in Trello settings. When you choose Dock & Menubar ...
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How to wait until internet connection, before launching "login item"
My Slack and a few other apps will automatically launch at login on my Macbook, since they are listed under "login items". However, some, like Slack, will launch before the internet is connected, and ...
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Auto-launch Microsoft Teams by adding it to my "Login Items"
I want Microsoft Teams to start automatically every time I turn on/log into my (company) MacBook (running Mojave 10.14.5.
I can add it to my login-items under System Preferences -> Users & ...
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Does Little Little Snitch 4 block connections during login?
I have been using Little Snitch for some time now.
I think the version I've started to use the program with, was 3.5.
Anyway, I remember seeing notifications from Little Snitch about connection ...
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Application removes itself from "login items"
Probably an opposite issue compared to what people post in here. I have a simple menu bar app hider, Vanilla, in free version. A "pro" feature is to make it start at login, which can be done from ...
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XDM software starting up on login but not present in Login items
I am using XDM (Xtreme Download Manager software) on my Mac.
When I login then the XDM software is started. But I do not see it in Login items(System Preferences → Users & Groups → Login Items ...
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Catalina reopens app windows upon login despite turning it off
I noticed this issue as soon as I updated to macOS 10.15(Catalina). The OS opens every previously opened windows even when the Reopen windows when logging back in is unticked.
Another bug I noticed ...
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Adding login items from terminal in Catalina
I've tried multiple ways but none work.
A few AppleScripts and even some bash script somebody made. Which essentially just executes a different AppleScript afaik.
Some of the commands I have tried:
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Location of login/autostart apps setting file in macOS
Under System Preferences → Users & Groups → Current User → Login items, a list of applications is maintained that will open automatically upon login:
I would like to share these settings across ...
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What are the ways in which installed software can negatively impact OSX speed over time?
Applications installed on macOS are not always completely self-contained. Sometimes they write files in multiple locations outside their .app bundle, taking up space that they sometimes occupy even ...
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Applications open on login when they shouldn't be
My MacBook will open applications (even when no applications were open on shutting down or restarting it) when it boots up. I checked the login items on system preferences and nothing should be ...
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Tracking slow login items with OSX
I recently installed OSX Mojave beta and noticed that the login process is slower as the apps load.
I was wondering if there was a way to track the amount of time each app/process takes to load at ...
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Play startup animation from video automatically at login
I want to add a function to my new install of Mountain Lion... What I want to do is add an autostart process that plays a video (in the .mp4 format) full screen, with audio, and without any controls ...
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Launch an Application on login for the Guest User
I would like for the Guest Account on the iMacs in my school to automatically launch Google Chrome when the Guest Account is logged into.
With normal users, you can accomplish this with the Login ...
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Prevent app re-adding itself to "open on login" list
I have an app ("Android File Transfer"), that adds itself to the System Preferences → Users & Groups → Login Items list. If I delete it with the "minus" button, the app re-adds itself next time it'...
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How to stop the Anydesk application from opening at startup?
I utilize this application called Anydesk for remote desktop very frequently, and while I was recently removing programs from starting up at login (because I wanted a faster start up speed) I noticed ...
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How can I mount Google Drive File Stream before launchd user agents start?
I have a simple backup bash script that dumps the output of pg_dump for a PostgreSQL database into a Google Drive File Stream directory.
This bash script is referenced by a launchd user agent.
The ...
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Can Login Items be added via the command line in High Sierra?
Can Login Items be added via a command in terminal?
I would like to add a few essential utilities like ShiftIt and Alfred to my Login Items via a script when I'm configuring a new Mac. In versions of ...
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