[launchd-dev] GUI Agent issue under Tiger

[Dave Zarzycki]

Peter,

GUI agent support was/is dead-on-arrival in Tiger (and fixed in  
Leopard, as you have observed).

Sorry,

davez


On Aug 5, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Peter Alshuth wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a setup with (user) agents that are communicating with one  
> daemon. Everything works well under 10.5 but if I run it under Tiger  
> I got all the problems:
>
> I have a warning/password box in my agent  (running as a background  
> program with a "limited UI" for each user). I can click at a button  
> but I cannot type anything in the password field under Tiger (works  
> fine in Leopard). I read something about a login/logout hook for  
> 10.3 or 10.4 but I thought this is not needed if I support only 10.4  
> and up. Apparently, my agents are not running under a GUI per- 
> session bootstrap in 10.4 any more. How can I resolve this problem?  
> I really don't want to use a different solution for 10.4 and  
> creating another background task that will launch my UI agent (and  
> the question here is how to deal with the bootstrap context). Is  
> there any special flag in the plist file (like the aqua session  
> keyword for 10.5) that I have to use for 10.4 only? The TN2083  
> points our that the global window server can be reached if the agent  
> UID matches the console user, but if I stop and start the agent  
> (with launchctl un/load myplistfile) all other launches will not  
> allow the app from connecting to the window server any more.
>
> Again, all the problems I have are under Tiger 10.4.11 and not  
> Leopard.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Peter
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