Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!jeff From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeff White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Query: Starting things in background Message-ID: <27004@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 16:44:59 GMT References: <649@cvbnetPrime.COM> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Jeff White) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 16 In article <649@cvbnetPrime.COM> aperez@cvbnet.UUCP (Arturo Perez x6739) writes: >I use Launch 3.0 so that when I boot the Mac, it gets started. > >However, it gets started as the "foreground" process. > >Is there a way to have it started at boot time so that it is a background >process? Applications launched under MultiFinder are launched alphabetically. In your case, Finder is launched first, the Launch. If you rename Launch so it starts with a letter before F (for Finder), it should run first, and then Finder will launch after and stay in the foreground. Jeff White jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu