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launchd.enable

Whether to enable Home Manager to define per-user daemons by making use of launchd’s LaunchAgents.

Type: boolean

Default:

pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin

Declared by:

launchd.agents

Define LaunchAgents.

Type: attribute set of (submodule)

Default:

{ }

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.enable

Whether to enable ‹name›.

Type: boolean

Default:

false

Example:

true

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config

Define a launchd job. See launchd.plist(5) for details.

Type: open submodule of attribute set of anything

Default:

{ }

Example:

{
  ProgramArguments = [
    "/usr/bin/say"
    "Good afternoon"
  ];
  StartCalendarInterval = [
    {
      Hour = 12;
      Minute = 0;
    }
  ];
}

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.AbandonProcessGroup

When a job dies, launchd kills any remaining processes with the same process group ID as the job. Setting this key to true disables that behavior.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Debug

This optional key specifies that launchd should adjust its log mask temporarily to LOG_DEBUG while dealing with this job.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Disabled

This optional key is used as a hint to launchctl(1) that it should not submit this job to launchd when loading a job or jobs. The value of this key does NOT reflect the current state of the job on the running system. If you wish to know whether a job is loaded in launchd, reading this key from a configuration file yourself is not a sufficient test. You should query launchd for the presence of the job using the launchctl(1) list subcommand or use the ServiceManagement framework’s SMJobCopyDictionary() method.

Note that as of Mac OS X v10.6, this key’s value in a configuration file conveys a default value, which is changed with the [-w] option of the launchctl(1) load and unload subcommands. These subcommands no longer modify the configuration file, so the value displayed in the configuration file is not necessarily the value that launchctl(1) will apply. See launchctl(1) for more information.

Please also be mindful that you should only use this key if the provided on-demand and KeepAlive criteria are insufficient to describe the conditions under which your job needs to run. The cost to have a job loaded in launchd is negligible, so there is no harm in loading a job which only runs once or very rarely.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.EnableGlobbing

This flag causes launchd to use the glob(3) mechanism to update the program arguments before invocation.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.EnableTransactions

This flag instructs launchd that the job promises to use vproc_transaction_begin(3) and vproc_transaction_end(3) to track outstanding transactions that need to be reconciled before the process can safely terminate. If no outstanding transactions are in progress, then launchd is free to send the SIGKILL signal.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.EnvironmentVariables

This optional key is used to specify additional environment variables to be set before running the job.

Type: null or (attribute set of string)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.ExitTimeOut

The amount of time launchd waits before sending a SIGKILL signal. The default value is 20 seconds. The value zero is interpreted as infinity.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.GroupName

This optional key specifies the group to run the job as. This key is only applicable when launchd is running as root. If UserName is set and GroupName is not, the the group will be set to the default group of the user.

Type: null or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits

Resource limits to be imposed on the job. These adjust variables set with setrlimit(2). The following keys apply:

Type: null or (submodule)

Default:

null

Example:

{
  NumberOfFiles = 4096;
}

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.CPU

The maximum amount of cpu time (in seconds) to be used by each process.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.Core

The largest size (in bytes) core file that may be created.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.Data

The maximum size (in bytes) of the data segment for a process; this defines how far a program may extend its break with the sbrk(2) system call.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.FileSize

The largest size (in bytes) file that may be created.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.MemoryLock

The maximum size (in bytes) which a process may lock into memory using the mlock(2) function.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.NumberOfFiles

The maximum number of open files for this process. Setting this value in a system wide daemon will set the sysctl(3) kern.maxfiles (SoftResourceLimits) or kern.maxfilesperproc (HardResourceLimits) value in addition to the setrlimit(2) values.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.NumberOfProcesses

The maximum number of simultaneous processes for this user id. Setting this value in a system wide daemon will set the sysctl(3) kern.maxproc (SoftResourceLimits) or kern.maxprocperuid (HardResourceLimits) value in addition to the setrlimit(2) values.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.ResidentSetSize

The maximum size (in bytes) to which a process’s resident set size may grow. This imposes a limit on the amount of physical memory to be given to a process; if memory is tight, the system will prefer to take memory from processes that are exceeding their declared resident set size.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.HardResourceLimits.Stack

The maximum size (in bytes) of the stack segment for a process; this defines how far a program’s stack segment may be extended. Stack extension is performed automatically by the system.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.InitGroups

This optional key specifies whether initgroups(3) should be called before running the job. The default is true in 10.5 and false in 10.4. This key will be ignored if the UserName key is not set.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.KeepAlive

This optional key is used to control whether your job is to be kept continuously running or to let demand and conditions control the invocation. The default is false and therefore only demand will start the job. The value may be set to true to unconditionally keep the job alive. Alternatively, a dictionary of conditions may be specified to selectively control whether launchd keeps a job alive or not. If multiple keys are provided, launchd ORs them, thus providing maximum flexibility to the job to refine the logic and stall if necessary. If launchd finds no reason to restart the job, it falls back on demand based invocation. Jobs that exit quickly and frequently when configured to be kept alive will be throttled to conserve system resources.

Type: null or boolean or (submodule)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.KeepAlive.AfterInitialDemand

Whether to defer evaluating other KeepAlive conditions until the job has been started at least once by demand.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

launchd.agents.<name>.config.KeepAlive.Crashed

If true, the the job will be restarted as long as it exited due to a signal which is typically associated with a crash (SIGILL, SIGSEGV, etc.). If false, the job will be restarted in the inverse condition.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

launchd.agents.<name>.config.KeepAlive.NetworkState

If true, the job will be kept alive as long as the network is up, where up is defined as at least one non-loopback interface being up and having IPv4 or IPv6 addresses assigned to them. If false, the job will be kept alive in the inverse condition.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

launchd.agents.<name>.config.KeepAlive.OtherJobEnabled

Each key in this dictionary is the label of another job. If the value of the key is true, then this job is kept alive as long as that other job is enabled. Otherwise, if the value is false, then this job is kept alive as long as the other job is disabled. This feature should not be considered a substitute for the use of IPC.

Type: null or (attribute set of boolean)

Default:

null

launchd.agents.<name>.config.KeepAlive.PathState

Each key in this dictionary is a file-system path. If the value of the key is true, then the job will be kept alive as long as the path exists. If false, the job will be kept alive in the inverse condition. The intent of this feature is that two or more jobs may create semaphores in the file-system namespace.

Type: null or (attribute set of boolean)

Default:

null

launchd.agents.<name>.config.KeepAlive.SuccessfulExit

If true, the job will be restarted as long as the program exits and with an exit status of zero. If false, the job will be restarted in the inverse condition. This key implies that “RunAtLoad” is set to true, since the job needs to run at least once before we can get an exit status.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Label

This required key uniquely identifies the job to launchd.

Type: string

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.LaunchEvents

Specifies higher-level event types to be used as launch-on-demand event sources. Each sub-dictionary defines events for a particular event subsystem, such as “com.apple.iokit.matching”, which can be used to launch jobs based on the appearance of nodes in the IORegistry. Each dictionary within the sub-dictionary specifies an event descriptor that is specified to each event subsystem. With this key, the job promises to use the xpc_set_event_stream_handler(3) API to consume events. See xpc_events(3) for more details on event sources.

Type: null or (attribute set)

Default:

null

Example:

{
  "com.apple.iokit.matching" = {
    "com.apple.usb.device" = {
      IOMatchLaunchStream = true;
      IOProviderClass = "IOUSBDevice";
      idProduct = "*";
      idVendor = "*";
    };
  };
}

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.LaunchOnlyOnce

This optional key specifies whether the job can only be run once and only once. In other words, if the job cannot be safely respawned without a full machine reboot, then set this key to be true.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.LimitLoadFromHosts

This configuration file only applies to hosts NOT listed with this key. Note: One should set kern.hostname in sysctl.conf(5) for this feature to work reliably.

Type: null or (list of string)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.LimitLoadToHosts

This configuration file only applies to the hosts listed with this key. Note: One should set kern.hostname in sysctl.conf(5) for this feature to work reliably.

Type: null or (list of string)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.LimitLoadToSessionType

This configuration file only applies to sessions of the type specified. This key is used in concert with the -S flag to launchctl.

Type: null or string or list of string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.LowPriorityBackgroundIO

This optional key specifies whether the kernel should consider this daemon to be low priority when doing file system I/O when the process is throttled with the Darwin-background classification.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.LowPriorityIO

This optional key specifies whether the kernel should consider this daemon to be low priority when doing file system I/O.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.MachServices

This optional key is used to specify Mach services to be registered with the Mach bootstrap sub-system. Each key in this dictionary should be the name of service to be advertised. The value of the key must be a boolean and set to true. Alternatively, a dictionary can be used instead of a simple true value.

Finally, for the job itself, the values will be replaced with Mach ports at the time of check-in with launchd.

Type: null or (attribute set of (boolean or (submodule)))

Default:

null

Example:

{
  "org.nixos.service" = {
    ResetAtClose = true;
  };
}

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.MachServices.<name>.HideUntilCheckIn

Reserve the name in the namespace, but cause bootstrap_look_up() to fail until the job has checked in with launchd.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

launchd.agents.<name>.config.MachServices.<name>.ResetAtClose

If this boolean is false, the port is recycled, thus leaving clients to remain oblivious to the demand nature of job. If the value is set to true, clients receive port death notifications when the job lets go of the receive right. The port will be recreated atomically with respect to bootstrap_look_up() calls, so that clients can trust that after receiving a port death notification, the new port will have already been recreated. Setting the value to true should be done with care. Not all clients may be able to handle this behavior. The default value is false.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Nice

This optional key specifies what nice(3) value should be applied to the daemon.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.OnDemand

This key was used in Mac OS X 10.4 to control whether a job was kept alive or not. The default was true. This key has been deprecated and replaced in Mac OS X 10.5 and later with the more powerful KeepAlive option.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.ProcessType

This optional key describes, at a high level, the intended purpose of the job. The system will apply resource limits based on what kind of job it is. If left unspecified, the system will apply light resource limits to the job, throttling its CPU usage and I/O bandwidth. The following are valid values:

  • ‌Background‌

    Background jobs are generally processes that do work that was not directly requested by the user. The resource limits applied to Background jobs are intended to prevent them from disrupting the user experience.

  • ‌Standard‌

    Standard jobs are equivalent to no ProcessType being set.

  • ‌Adaptive‌

    Adaptive jobs move between the Background and Interactive classifications based on activity over XPC connections. See xpc_transaction_begin(3) for details.

  • ‌Interactive‌

    Interactive jobs run with the same resource limitations as apps, that is to say, none. Interactive jobs are critical to maintaining a responsive user experience, and this key should only be used if an app’s ability to be responsive depends on it, and cannot be made Adaptive.

Type: null or one of “Background”, “Standard”, “Adaptive”, “Interactive”

Default:

null

Example:

"Background"

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Program

This key maps to the first argument of execvp(3). If this key is missing, then the first element of the array of strings provided to the ProgramArguments will be used instead. This key is required in the absence of the ProgramArguments key.

Type: null or absolute path

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.ProgramArguments

This key maps to the second argument of execvp(3). This key is required in the absence of the Program key. Please note: many people are confused by this key. Please read execvp(3) very carefully!

Type: null or (list of string)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.QueueDirectories

Much like the WatchPaths option, this key will watch the paths for modifications. The difference being that the job will only be started if the path is a directory and the directory is not empty.

Type: null or (list of string)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.RootDirectory

This optional key is used to specify a directory to chroot(2) to before running the job.

Type: null or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.RunAtLoad

This optional key is used to control whether your job is launched once at the time the job is loaded. The default is false.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.ServiceIPC

This optional key specifies whether the job participates in advanced communication with launchd. The default is false. This flag is incompatible with the inetdCompatibility key.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SessionCreate

This key specifies that the job should be spawned into a new security audit session rather than the default session for the context is belongs to. See auditon(2) for details.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets

This optional key is used to specify launch on demand sockets that can be used to let launchd know when to run the job. The job must check-in to get a copy of the file descriptors using APIs outlined in launch(3). The keys of the top level Sockets dictionary can be anything. They are meant for the application developer to use to differentiate which descriptors correspond to which application level protocols (e.g. http vs. ftp vs. DNS…). At check-in time, the value of each Sockets dictionary key will be an array of descriptors. Daemon/Agent writers should consider all descriptors of a given key to be to be effectively equivalent, even though each file descriptor likely represents a different networking protocol which conforms to the criteria specified in the job configuration file.

The parameters below are used as inputs to call getaddrinfo(3).

Type: null or (attribute set of (submodule))

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.Bonjour

This optional key can be used to request that the service be registered with the mDNSResponder(8). If the value is boolean, the service name is inferred from the SockServiceName.

Type: null or boolean or list of string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.MulticastGroup

This optional key can be used to request that the datagram socket join a multicast group. If the value is a hostname, then getaddrinfo(3) will be used to join the correct multicast address for a given socket family. If an explicit IPv4 or IPv6 address is given, it is required that the SockFamily family also be set, otherwise the results are undefined.

Type: null or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SecureSocketWithKey

This optional key is a variant of SockPathName. Instead of binding to a known path, a securely generated socket is created and the path is assigned to the environment variable that is inherited by all jobs spawned by launchd.

Type: null or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SockFamily

This optional key can be used to specifically request that “IPv4” or “IPv6” socket(s) be created.

Type: null or one of “IPv4”, “IPv6”

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SockNodeName

This optional key specifies the node to connect(2) or bind(2) to.

Type: null or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SockPassive

This optional key specifies whether listen(2) or connect(2) should be called on the created file descriptor. The default is true (“to listen”).

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SockPathMode

This optional key specifies the mode of the socket. Known bug: Property lists don’t support octal, so please convert the value to decimal.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SockPathName

This optional key implies SockFamily is set to “Unix”. It specifies the path to connect(2) or bind(2) to.

Type: null or absolute path

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SockProtocol

This optional key specifies the protocol to be passed to socket(2). The only value understood by this key at the moment is “TCP”.

Type: null or value “TCP” (singular enum)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SockServiceName

This optional key specifies the service on the node to connect(2) or bind(2) to.

Type: null or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Sockets.<name>.SockType

This optional key tells launchctl what type of socket to create. The default is “stream” and other valid values for this key are “dgram” and “seqpacket” respectively.

Type: null or one of “stream”, “dgram”, “seqpacket”

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits

Resource limits to be imposed on the job. These adjust variables set with setrlimit(2). The following keys apply:

Type: null or (submodule)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.CPU

The maximum amount of cpu time (in seconds) to be used by each process.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.Core

The largest size (in bytes) core file that may be created.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.Data

The maximum size (in bytes) of the data segment for a process; this defines how far a program may extend its break with the sbrk(2) system call.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.FileSize

The largest size (in bytes) file that may be created.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.MemoryLock

The maximum size (in bytes) which a process may lock into memory using the mlock(2) function.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.NumberOfFiles

The maximum number of open files for this process. Setting this value in a system wide daemon will set the sysctl(3) kern.maxfiles (SoftResourceLimits) or kern.maxfilesperproc (HardResourceLimits) value in addition to the setrlimit(2) values.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.NumberOfProcesses

The maximum number of simultaneous processes for this user id. Setting this value in a system wide daemon will set the sysctl(3) kern.maxproc (SoftResourceLimits) or kern.maxprocperuid (HardResourceLimits) value in addition to the setrlimit(2) values.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.ResidentSetSize

The maximum size (in bytes) to which a process’s resident set size may grow. This imposes a limit on the amount of physical memory to be given to a process; if memory is tight, the system will prefer to take memory from processes that are exceeding their declared resident set size.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.SoftResourceLimits.Stack

The maximum size (in bytes) of the stack segment for a process; this defines how far a program’s stack segment may be extended. Stack extension is performed automatically by the system.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.StandardErrorPath

This optional key specifies what file should be used for data being sent to stderr when using stdio(3).

Type: null or absolute path

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.StandardInPath

This optional key specifies what file should be used for data being supplied to stdin when using stdio(3).

Type: null or absolute path

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.StandardOutPath

This optional key specifies what file should be used for data being sent to stdout when using stdio(3).

Type: null or absolute path

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.StartCalendarInterval

This optional key causes the job to be started every calendar interval as specified. The semantics are much like crontab(5): Missing attributes are considered to be wildcard. Unlike cron which skips job invocations when the computer is asleep, launchd will start the job the next time the computer wakes up. If multiple intervals transpire before the computer is woken, those events will be coalesced into one event upon waking from sleep.

Important: The list must not be empty and must not contain duplicate entries (attrsets which compare equally).

Caution: Since missing attrs become wildcards, an empty attrset effectively means “every minute”.

Type: null or (submodule) or unique (non-empty (list of (submodule)))

Default:

null

Example:

[
  {
    Hour = 2;
    Minute = 30;
  }
]

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.StartInterval

This optional key causes the job to be started every N seconds. If the system is asleep, the job will be started the next time the computer wakes up. If multiple intervals transpire before the computer is woken, those events will be coalesced into one event upon wake from sleep.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.StartOnMount

This optional key causes the job to be started every time a filesystem is mounted.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.ThrottleInterval

This key lets one override the default throttling policy imposed on jobs by launchd. The value is in seconds, and by default, jobs will not be spawned more than once every 10 seconds. The principle behind this is that jobs should linger around just in case they are needed again in the near future. This not only reduces the latency of responses, but it encourages developers to amortize the cost of program invocation.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.TimeOut

The recommended idle time out (in seconds) to pass to the job. If no value is specified, a default time out will be supplied by launchd for use by the job at check in time.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.Umask

This optional key specifies what value should be passed to umask(2) before running the job. Known bug: Property lists don’t support octal, so please convert the value to decimal.

Type: null or signed integer

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.UserName

This optional key specifies the user to run the job as. This key is only applicable when launchd is running as root.

Type: null or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.WaitForDebugger

This optional key specifies that launchd should instruct the kernel to have the job wait for a debugger to attach before any code in the job is executed.

Type: null or boolean

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.WatchPaths

This optional key causes the job to be started if any one of the listed paths are modified.

Type: null or (list of absolute path)

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.WorkingDirectory

This optional key is used to specify a directory to chdir(2) to before running the job.

Type: null or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.inetdCompatibility

The presence of this key specifies that the daemon expects to be run as if it were launched from inetd.

Type: null or (submodule)

Default:

null

Example:

{
  Wait = true;
}

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.config.inetdCompatibility.Wait

This flag corresponds to the “wait” or “nowait” option of inetd. If true, then the listening socket is passed via the standard in/out/error file descriptors. If false, then accept(2) is called on behalf of the job, and the result is passed via the standard in/out/error descriptors.

Type: null or boolean or string

Default:

null

Declared by:

launchd.agents.<name>.domain

The launchd domain to bootstrap this agent into.

The gui domain is appropriate for agents that need the user’s Aqua session, such as window managers, hotkey daemons, and other graphical tools. The user domain is appropriate for background services that do not require a graphical login session.

Type: one of “gui”, “user”

Default:

"gui"

Example:

"user"

Declared by: