Can Login Items be disabled instead of just hidden/removed?
cderalow wrote in another thread:
"system preferences
accounts
login items
uncheck as applicable "
I always thought unchecking just made the app hidden on login but still launched. Is there a way of disabling items in this window instead of deleting them?
Thanks.
:-Joe
Oh, I see. Hmmm, unfortunately, I can't think of an easy way to do that, off hand.
The "login items" in the "Accounts" pref pane are recorded in the user's "~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist" file. Conceptually, you could do what you are asking by backing up the original file, removing all login items, then editing the real file manually by copying back individual items from the backup. I suppose this might be slightly easier than having to open "System Preferences", then navigating to each individual item to be added back after each log in test -- but not by much.
For example, suppose you open "/Applications" > "Utilities" > "Terminal.app" and run this command:<pre>plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist -o ~/Desktop/loginwindowBackup.plist</pre>A plain text XML version of the file should be created on your "Desktop" (the command assumes that a file named "loginwindowBackup.plist" did not already exist there - if it did, it would have been overwritten so be careful). It should be possible to open that file in a text editor, such as eg. "TextEdit.app".
The "login items" are specified in the 'AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary', which is bounded by the '<array></array>' tags. Within this array, each individual "login item" is specified within a "dictionary" entry (bounded by '<dict></dict>' tags), containing keys such as 'AliasData', 'Path', etc. Anyway, that whole dictionary entry (including the opening and closing 'dict' tags represents the "login item".
So it should be possible to copy and paste one or more entries from the backup into a second copy of the "loginwindow.plist" file. After editing, that file (renamed "loginwindow.plist") could be copied back into "~/Library/Preferences", prior to logging out and back in to test the login item.
It's probably easier than I have made it sound - easier on a technical level, at least, but still tedious to execute in practice...
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