Using SMLoginItemSetEnabled, App does not show under "Login Items"

Question

I am using SMLoginItemSetEnabled to launch an app on login. Everything works fine, except that the App does not show under "Login Items" in the "User Preferences" window. I have tried this in OS X Lion.

1. Is this the expected behavior?
2. Is there a way to manually stop the App from launching on login? I can't find anything in /Library/LaunchDaemons or /Library/LaunchAgents.

Answer 1

This is expected behavior. Apple Daemons and Services Programming Guide says:

Login items installed using the Service Management framework are not visible in System Preferences and can only be removed by the application that installed them.

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Yes, just change Disabled to true for your bundle identifier in launchd's overrides.plist. I wrote you a command to do just this:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Set :com.yourcompany.helper-CFBundleIdentifier-here:Disabled true' /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.$UID/overrides.plist

• Note: Replace com.yourcompany.helper-CFBundleIdentifier-here with your BundleIdentifier.