[launchd-dev] Starting Agents in specific GUI sessions

[Kevin Meaney]

> On Aug 16, 2013, at 9:44 AM, NuSkooler <nuskooler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I *do* have GUI applications (the "agents")
> 
> I'm sure that part of the trouble here is the ambiguity which has been baked in to the documentation through history.  The word "agent" in particular is a frequent sower of confusion.

This relative up to date documentation has a decent description of what Apple means by the various terms, Agents, Daemons, Login Items etc.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/DesigningDaemons.html

Kevin