10.7: Installing Login Items.

Jul 27, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: squalene

Lion Requires An Extra Step to Install Login Items, unchecking the 'Reopen Windows When Logging Back In' checkbox.

After installing a Login Item in the 'Users & Groups' preference pane, be sure to uncheck the 'Reopen Windows When Logging Back In' checkbox of the logout dialog.

Otherwise Lion preserves the status of login Apps between log ins, and the newly installed App will will never load.

The 'Reopen...' box only needs to be unchecked once. On subsequent logins, the added item is part of the preserved state.

[crarko adds: I'd classify this as a bug; hopefully an exception will be made to preserve this state change automatically in some future update.]

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