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Mac launchcontrol alternative6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() As on the Launchpad, Novation also provides separate user/factory templates you can access with a push-button, and switches for selecting tracks and sends, all mapped to Ableton Live. Each column also gets two triggers these are switchable when used with Ableton Live to control mute, solo, and record arm functions. It’s just faders and pots: 8 faders, with three knobs each. So, that makes the new LaunchControl XL from Novation a potential stand-out. There are surprisingly few controllers out there tailored to this application. Maybe it’s not about elaborate custom parameter assignment, or clip launching, or playing an in-tune Phrygian scale on a colored, light-up grid as you solo on a bowed marimba sample. Launchctl bootout gui/501 ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ist launchctl enable user/501/~/Library/LaunchAgents/ist launchctl bootstrap gui/501 ~/Library/LaunchAgents/environment.Sometimes, you just want to grab a fader. plist file to be run and a line added to ~/ These are the commands I've been using to test it and get it started. Label my.startup ProgramArguments /bin/bash -c while read LINE do NAME=$ eval launchctl setenv $NAME '$VALUE' eval export $NAME='$VALUE' done <~/environment.txt echo 'ist ran on $(date)' > ~/ RunAtLoadBut currently mine is working well, on Monterey 12.2.1. There are so many gotchas on these plist files. Make sure "xattr " doesn't show any unusual extended attributes for the plist file. The part "echo 'ist ran on $(date)' > ~/" does the logging. ![]() plist file (for reading ~/environment.txt and assigning environment variables from that file). plist file to append a line of text with current date to a log file in my home directory, so I could see when it actually did run. Then, after all seems okay, doing launchctl unload, enable, then load and then rebooting made it start working on mine.ĭo the first of those commands give an error message? Or just doesn't work? Launchctl enable user/501/~/Library/LaunchAgents/ist "id" command shows your id's, first one is your user ID (UID). in ~/Library/LaunchAgents instead of in /Library/LaunchAgents. I found that the filename has to be prefixed by some stuff if it is a user-domain file, e.g. ![]() If file has certain attributes such as a quarantine attribute from an antivirus program or an Xcode attribute when you did not edit it from Xcode, you will see in ls -l, and can examine extended attributes with xattr and delete attributes with xattr -d Make sure the file is owned by the user (or root if in /Library/LaunchAgents) and is u+rw,g+r,o+r definitions in a text file that is read by the very short plist bash script, which calls launchctl setenv. Finally I have an easy way to set global environment variables that are available to GUI apps. Setting "RunAtLoad" true (=1 in Xcode) is crucial also. Also, I discovered I had to edit the plist file with Xcode, it didn't work right editing it with a text editor even though the file looked correct. There are so many gotchas with plists, including making sure the file owner and permission bits are right, and that the syntax is correct (plutil shows if it is). After that, it appeared to still not be setting environment variables, but actually, it was, I just needed to exit Terminal and reenter it so it would get a new copy of the system environment variables. Then, when I enabled it with 'launchctl enable', I was unable to load it with 'launchctl load' because it needed to be unloaded first with 'launchctl unload'. I think that originally it had stopped working because something disabled it (virus checker?). plist file defined environment variables using 'launchctl setenv'. launchctl kickstart -kp gui/501/setUserKeyMapping If you pass -kp to the kickstart action, it will kill any running instanceĪnd restart it, then print out the PID of the new instance. Launchctl kickstart gui/501/setUserKeyMapping So, for the file at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ist I ran: launchctl enable gui/501/setUserKeyMapping Where the 501 bit is my user ID from: echo $UID The service-target that worked for me was in the form gui/501/myPlistFilename ![]() I think the old behaviour can be achieved by the following two commands: # Enable this plist Subcommands from the previous implementation of launchd are generally available, though some may be unimplemented. I read through the launchctl man pages and saw that load is now considered a legacy subcommand. I had this too, and I think I have a solution. ![]()
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