Greetings,
I'm aware, from doing "Show Package Contents" in the Finder, that some Mac OS apps have "login items", as evidenced by the existence of the Contents/Library/LoginItems folder within the app bundle. I have obsereved in some instances that items within the "LoginItems" folder of an app later appear as "agents" (or "sub-processes") within the process tree as shown by "ps" in the Terminal, after the main app is launched.
Can I assume in this context, generally, that "LoginItems" means "items that are (or can be) started when the app launches"?
My real question is: Is it possible for an end user (albeit one with Administrator capability), to add a new "login item" to an existing application simply by adding a program (or bundle or script) to the Contents/Library/LoginItems folder, and perhaps by editing a plist file somewhere in the bundle, to "register" the new LoginItem with the app? So that, the new program runs automatically whenever the app is launched?
Thanks,
Barry