OSX 10.8 LoginItems

Question

I found this Add app to OSX "Login Items" during a Package Maker installer postflight script but it doesn't appear to work in OSX 10.8?

This is from the other question and works in everything else...

defaults write \
    /Library/Preferences/loginwindow \
    AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary \
    -array-add '{ "Path" = "/path/to/script"; "Hide" = "0"; }'

How can I add my app to loginItems in OSX Mountain Lion (10.8)?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '13 at 18:29

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OS X 10.8 is under NDA, we are not at liberty of giving details about it but i can tell you that there is no /Library/Preferences/loginwindow under 10.7 or any other recent OSX version, you should be doing :

defaults write \
    ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow \
    AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary \
    -array-add '{ "Path" = "/path/to/script"; "Hide" = "0"; }'

Notice the "~" tilde was missing

edited Mar 12 '13 at 18:29

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answered Feb 28 '12 at 19:58

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Note that this only adds it to the current user's login items, not the *global* login items. Adding to those only seems to be possible via the Launch Services' Shared File List API now. – pmdj Oct 01 '12 at 10:40
Since this isn't an answer, but an admonition about NDA, it should be a comment. Consider updating this with a **real answer** now that 10.8 has been out for a while. – Bryson Dec 09 '12 at 00:26

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '12 at 17:40

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OS X 10.8 stores login items in com.apple.loginwindow.plist

answered Aug 24 '12 at 17:40

dummy mann

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Citation? As far as I can tell, this is in fact false. Global login items are now stored in `/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist` - but you should not modify this file directly. Instead, use the Launch Services' Shared File List API (in `LSSharedFileList.h`). (10.6 and up) – pmdj Oct 01 '12 at 10:43

OSX 10.8 LoginItems

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