{"id":1689,"date":"2008-03-17T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/unwanted-app-launch-problem-solved\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:14:23","slug":"unwanted-app-launch-problem-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/17\/unwanted-app-launch-problem-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwanted App Launch Problem Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/9504\">Matt Neuburg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/9504\">\n<p>There can be a file in your top-level Library's Preferences folder called <em>com.apple.SystemLoginItems.plist<\/em>. This mechanism is used by a very few specialized applications that launch on a per-user basis and want access to the Window Server, but need to launch before the user actually logs in. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netopia.com\/software\/products\/tb2\/mac\/\">Timbuktu<\/a> is an example of such an application.) It is deprecated in Leopard, where you're supposed to use a LaunchAgent instead; but some older programs still use it.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Neuburg: There can be a file in your top-level Library's Preferences folder called com.apple.SystemLoginItems.plist. This mechanism is used by a very few specialized applications that launch on a per-user basis and want access to the Window Server, but need to launch before the user actually logs in. (Timbuktu is an example of such an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-10-27T20:14:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"fe13c439-5203-4e19-8b56-9b68535415fd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-10-27T20:14:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_hPEOVIDThmLVptoU1QV_Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2296,30],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-login-items","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15203,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/15203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}