Auto-start on launch

[RowanKaag]

Dear,

Would it be possible to start security-growler directly on OS X boot/launching the app? I've added security-growler to System Preferences 👉 Users & Groups 👉 myuser 👉 Login Items.
It doesn't auto kick-start however, only when I manually click the menu bar icon.

Kind regards,
Rowan Kaag

[pirate]

This is a limitation of the menubar-app-builder Platypus that I'm using, once we move away from Platypus this issue will be fixed.

See issue #27 for progress on that.

[BenjaminHCCarr]

I SHOULE be able to do this by adding a plist launchd for the Homebrew package.
brew cask install security-growler

[pirate]

@BenjaminHCCarr this issue caused by the background agent not starting when the app is launched (it requires that you click the menubar icon once to start it), not the app launching at system startup.

A homebrew plist wont solve it, since you have to force a click event on the menubar item to kickstart the Platypus script on first run.

[ajinabraham]

There should be some work around to support this. This is one critical function.
I can code in peace while growler cover my back.

[pirate]

I'm in the process of rewriting security growler for Bitbar, which will solve this problem.

[pirate]

I'm currently stuck on the new Sierra logging system, which is requiring a surprising amount of work to accommodate. It's going to need a significant refactor of the monitor and parser architecture before being ready to release. I'm also currently in the process of launching a company, and considering this is an unpaid side project I haven't been able to give it the time it deserves.

You can follow the bitbar branch if you're interested in watching progress/testing/helping develop it. In the meantime I recommend running Little Snitch, Radio Silence, Marus, Private Eye, TCPBlock, or HandsOff.

[RowanKaag]

Thank you! As I am not much of a macOS developer I will not be of any added value developing this application, unfortunately. Will gladly keep an eye out for any other commits though on the bitbar branch. Thank you for supplying intermediary solutions as well!