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Lion: How to disable ŒReopen windows when logging back in¹ option with Casper

  • December 16, 2011
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Hello everyone,
This is the only way I found so far to disable ‘Reopen windows when logging back in’ option

http://faizanshaharyar.com/osx-lion-how-to-disable-reopen-windows-when-logging-back-in-option

As far as I can understand - it requires a login hook (that might be overwritten by Casper ones) and it downloads a script from somewhere.

It works on my test machine but I have not tested it with Casper yet, is there a better/safer way to achieve disabling that option in Lion?
Many thanks or your help!
Have a great weekend
Carlo
Casper 8.1 – xServe JSS

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    • Walter
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    • December 16, 2011

    Have you looked at what that script does? It removes the ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.* so anything you might have put in there gets wiped out along with the window restore data. I don't know what else might get stored in there, but be aware that this is what the script does.

    #!/bin/bash
    echo "#!/bin/bash" > /tmp/loginfix.sh
    echo "rm /Users//Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow." >> /tmp/loginfix.sh
    mv /tmp/loginfix.sh /usr/bin/loginfix.sh
    chmod +x /usr/bin/loginfix.sh
    defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /usr/bin/loginfix.sh

    Walter

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    • Walter
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    • December 16, 2011

    I think one only needs to delete the TALAppsToRelaunchAtLogin key
    from ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.<UUID>

    For my account, there was nothing else in there so when I did a "defaults delete" it removed the entire file.

    Walter

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    • lisacherie
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    • December 18, 2011

    There is also a key in .GlobalPreferences

    NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows of type boolean and value false

    This is the same as un-ticking System Preferences -> General -> Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps checkbox.

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