batguebi01: Always keep an application open

Monday, 4 July 2011

Always keep an application open

If you have some app that you always want to keep open -- in my case it's Stickies and DragThing, which I use frequently -- it's easy to set up the computer to do that for you.

For example, to keep Stickies permanently open, remove Stickies from the login items for your account (if you've placed it there), quit Stickies, and then create the following plist file in the LaunchAgents folder of your home Library (~/Library/LaunchAgents) with the name user.launchkeep.stickies.plist:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>   <key>Label</key>   <string>user.launchkeep.stickies</string>   <key>KeepAlive& ...