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#450 feat(autostart): show whether Carrier really starts at login, and use a login item on macOS
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Originally created by: kristofferR
Start on System Startup only ever wrote the setting. Every OS lets people switch startup off outside Carrier (Task Manager, the desktop's autostart settings, macOS Login Items), and Carrier's switch then stayed on while Carrier didn't start. On macOS 13+ the LaunchAgent it used also showed up under "Allow in the Background" instead of as a normal "Open at Login" item.
What changed
tauri-plugin-autostartis replaced bysrc-tauri/src/autostart.rs, which writes the registration and reads it back on every platform. Carrier reads the OS state at startup and whenever Settings opens or regains focus, on the settings worker so it can't overwrite a save in flight. The OS wins; an unreadable state keeps the stored setting.- macOS 13+: an "Open at Login" item through
SMAppService.mainApp. A login item waiting for approval (which is also what switching it off in Login Items reports) reads as off, and Settings shows a "Waiting for Approval" row with an Open Login Items button. 10.15 to 12 keep the LaunchAgent. - Migration from the LaunchAgent: the login item is registered and the agent is removed only once the login item is enabled, so startup never has a gap. An agent the user switched off under "Allow in the Background" (read through
statusForLegacyURL) is removed without registering a login item. - Windows: on when the per-user
Runvalue points at this executable andStartupApproved\Rundoesn't mark it disabled. Turning it on in Carrier clears that mark. The plugin's machine-wide path for elevated runs is gone. - Linux: the XDG autostart entry counts unless it has
Hidden=trueorX-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false, and only if it launches this install (the AppImage when running from one). It now honours$XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and the launch path is quoted, so paths with spaces work. - Registrations keep the plugin's names, so existing ones carry over.
Testing
cargo fmt, clippy-D warnings(Linux, and cross-checked foraarch64-apple-darwinandx86_64-pc-windows-msvc),cargo test --libandbun run checkpass. Unit tests cover the Task Manager flag,Runvalue parsing,Execquoting,.desktopswitches, the OS-wins rule, and the macOS migration plan.- Not yet tested on real logins: macOS login item registration, approval and LaunchAgent migration (needs a signed build), Windows registry reads and writes, and a Linux desktop's own autostart switch.
Ref [#443]
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