*** The Official macOS Ventura thread ***

Broken Hope said:
Bit of a faff but this should sort your login items issue.
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Funnily enough, I tried that but it didn’t work. The exported plist was empty as Ventura changes the way it launches apps on boot.

I’ve actually found a fix which involves writing a plist for each item and dumping it in launchitems. I’ll write it up and post it in here a bit later.
 
Right, this is how I've got applications to launch automatically at login and have them hidden. It looks more complicated than it actually is. It's quite straightforward.

First, if you have them set to start automatically already, go to System Settings / General / Login Items and remove them.

Next, open TextEdit and make sure you're working with a plain text document by pressing shift-cmd-t or clicking Format / Make Plain Text

Then paste the following into the editor.

Code: 
<?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>imgurls.LaunchAtLogin</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>open</string>
        <string>-j</string>
        <string>/Applications/img.urls.app</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

With this in there, there are two things you need to edit.

In line 6, change this to be a description of the app you want to open hidden, just change the part before .LaunchAtLogin Actually, you only need to change this if you're going to have more than one app because it has to be unique for each one. In this case, I'm opening imgurls (which is an app I call via right click to upload an image to imgur and automatically copy the link to the clipboard).

Line 11 is where you put the path and filename of the application you want to open. In this case, you can see it's in /Applications and the app name is img.urls.app

You need to be careful to get this absolutely exact, including capitalisation and be aware that if you're opening system apps, they may appear to be in /Applications but they're actually not. For example, one of the apps I have opening automatically is Photos and the path for that is <string>/System/Applications/Photos.app</string>. You can check where an app is by opening a terminal and doing an ls -l in /Applications and again in /System/Applications

Once you've got the file tweaked as you want, save it with an extension of .plist and dump it either in ~/Library/LaunchAgents if you only want the app to open for the current user or /Library/LaunchAgents if you want it to open for all users.

Log out, log back in again and you're sorted.
 
HACO said:
I'm guessing there is/will be a third party tool that takes care of all of this?
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Possibly someone will make one, yes. It'll fill a hole.


Feek said:
It's adding native support for various steering wheels and pedals, such as the Logitech G29 and G920. I have a G29 and I've not been able to use it since the Logitech drivers stopped working, a couple of macOS versions ago. I'm finally going to be able to get my wheel, pedals and shifter out of the box and drive ETS2/ATS and F1 2017 again.
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I spent nearly two hours with Apple trying to get my G29 working yesterday, in the end the best they could tell me was that "it's probably not been implemented yet".
 
If you don't want to write plist files to stop apps opening at launch unminimised, there's now an 89p app that'll do it for you.

apps.apple.com

‎Autostarter

‎Autostarter is a small app that makes it possible to launch applications automatically during login without letting the applications show windows, even with macOS Ventura or later. This feature, which Mac users loved, can now still be used, although it had been dropped with the introduction of...
apps.apple.com

I have bought it, it does exactly what it's supposed to, I figure that's easier than writing each time I want to do this.
 
I do all my email rules from icloud.com so they run on the server except one which highlights emails to a specific address. That one works perfectly and persists between sessions.
 
ic1male said:
Do many people use Time Machine these days? Or do you just back up stuff to iCloud?
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I do. iMac, Studio and MBA all back up to Time Machine. The iMac and Studio alternate between a locally attached drive and my NAS and the MBA just to my NAS.

All three also back up daily to a local SSD using Carbon Copy Cloner and the Studio has Backblaze installed.

And my documents/desktop folders are part of the iCloud Drive. Not that I keep anything whatsoever on the desktop.
 
TopDriver216 said:
Anyway, let me know! (sorry i just replied to the most recent post you had). Cheers!
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I've moved this post to the macOS Ventura thread to avoid confusion.

No, despite it being announced last year, native steering wheel support still hasn't been added to macOS Ventura :(
 
visibleman said:
@Feek will probably know but iirc, click and hold with one finger, drag the item/file around with another, release when done.
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I can grab stuff with three fingers and move it or if I double tap and then hold on a file/window/whatever, I can also move it but I had to do some fancy terminal jiggery pokery to enable both.

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visibleman said:
Awful bloody things though :(
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Get in the sea :cry: the trackpad is much better than a mouse.
 
I have to say that if I jump on a Mac where I've not tweaked the trackpad settings, the dragging/dropping is totally alien to me.
 
Throrik said:
Not going to lie, drag and drop always feels so slow to me - cmd+c or cmd+x for me and then cmd+v is much, much quicker.
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It's not just dragging and dropping, it's moving windows around. I generally use keyboard shortcuts to copy files as well.
 
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