hidden: Login Item does not show up anywhere visible

When enabling the “Start when I log in” option, typically we should see a reference to the app in Login Items of System Preferences. However, in HiddenBar’s case, this does not happen.

Lingon X fails to see it, as does LaunchControl. Even osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get the name of every login item' from a bash shell does not list it. The only tool that I have found which enumerates the loginItem successfully is KnockKnock.

Not sure if this is because of some nonstandard plist in the LauncherApplication.app bundle?

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments: 15 (15 by maintainers)

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For me:

I can easily see what items automatically launch at login, and I can remove them without asking the permission of the App.

For the app:

it can make the size of App smaller (not having a launcher)
it tells users that the App is not doing some dirty work in the background of your Mac (visible in system preferences)
Old api (like you said, it uses an old api, so it may have problems in the future)

So, what to do is up to you. Or you can have a survey to know what others want.

L1cardo on Dec 20, 2019

@phucledien What am I going to use is Deprecated in macOS 10.11, but this will work. Is that OK ?

L1cardo on Dec 20, 2019

OK I will give it a shot

L1cardo on Dec 19, 2019