{"id":1174,"date":"2011-02-07T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T21:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2015-09-06T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:09:51","slug":"how-to-launch-and-hide-desktop-curtain-at-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"How-to: Launch and hide Desktop Curtain at login"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"sitepull\">Over the weekend, I was asked why Desktop Curtain can&#8217;t be launched and hidden at login&mdash;when set to run at login, Desktop Curtain appears (as would any other app set to run at login). While you can&#8217;t set this preference within Desktop Curtain, it&#8217;s relatively easy to do with some help from Mac OS X.<\/p>\n<p>First, make sure the &#8216;Launch automatically at login&#8217; box is checked on the Advanced tab of Desktop Curtain&#8217;s settings window.<\/p>\n<p>Second, go to the Accounts System Preferences panel, select your account in the left-hand column, and then click the Login Items tab on the right. Find Desktop Curtain in the list, and check the leftmost box, in the Hide column:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/hidelogin.png\"><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s it&mdash;Desktop Curtain will now launch at login, and hide. To get the most out of this tip, you should also set a global hot key (on the Advanced tab of Desktop Curtain&#8217;s settings window), so you can then make Desktop Curtain visible whenever you need to hide your clutter.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I was asked why Desktop Curtain can&#8217;t be launched and hidden at login&mdash;when set to run at login, Desktop Curtain appears (as would any other app set to run at login). While you can&#8217;t set this preference within Desktop Curtain, it&#8217;s relatively easy to do with some help from Mac OS X. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desktop-curtain","category-how-to","category-products"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}