I have the following script to take a screenshot programmatically
When I run the script from a Terminal window for the first time, macOS asks me to give permission to the Terminal app for recording the screen. Afterwards the screenshot is stored in screenshot.png as expected.
When I try to run the same script from a launch agent, however, I only get a screenshot of the empty desktop with none of the open windows displayed.
This is the launch-agent plist
I suspect this is a permission problem because before having granted permission for the Terminal app to record the screen, I was getting the same empty screenshot when running the script manually. However, no new entry shows up under Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Screen Recording after running the launch agent.
How can I give permission to the launch agent for recording the screen?
Code Block $ cat /Users/bamboo/capture/capture #!/bin/bash screencapture -o "$(dirname "$0")/screenshot.png"
When I run the script from a Terminal window for the first time, macOS asks me to give permission to the Terminal app for recording the screen. Afterwards the screenshot is stored in screenshot.png as expected.
When I try to run the same script from a launch agent, however, I only get a screenshot of the empty desktop with none of the open windows displayed.
This is the launch-agent plist
Code Block $ cat /Users/bamboo/Library/LaunchAgents/com.capture.screen.plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.capture.screen</string> <key>KeepAlive</key> <true/> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/Users/bamboo/capture/capture</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>StandardOutPath</key> <string>/Users/bamboo/capture/stdout.log</string> <key>StandardErrorPath</key> <string>/Users/bamboo/capture/stderr.log</string> </dict> </plist>
I suspect this is a permission problem because before having granted permission for the Terminal app to record the screen, I was getting the same empty screenshot when running the script manually. However, no new entry shows up under Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Screen Recording after running the launch agent.
How can I give permission to the launch agent for recording the screen?