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I'm trying to figure out how to get a chrome desktop app (Kiosk) to launch at startup. I've gone to system preferences > accounts > login items and added Kiosk (User > Applications > Chrome Apps > Kiosk) but it won't launch.

Any idea how to get these to launch properly at startup on mac osx?

I do have an automator application running at startup which executes a few node.js commands from a bash script, so maybe I could do it that way, but I'm not sure how.

If I go to the application icon and get info, I can see it says:

Default afhcomalholahplbjhnmahkoekoijban.app under name and extension, and its location is /Users/mikeheavers/Applications/Chrome Apps.localized but if I attempt to run:

open -a Default /Users/mikeheavers/Applications/Chrome\ Apps.localized/afhcomalholahplbjhnmahkoekoijban.app

from terminal it says that the file doesn't exist

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I figured this out. It was a bit confusing so I'm posting the method I found here in case it's helpful to anyone.

  • open automator
  • got to file > new and select application
  • from the library, choose Run Shell Script and drag it to the window
  • In the run shell script dialog, enter the following:

(/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --profile-directory=Default --app-id=afhcomalholahplbjhnmahkoekoijban) & This launches the chrome kiosk app - you will need to get the app id for your specific chrome app by going to the application icon (located in [user]/Applications/Chrome Apps/), right clicking, and going to get info. The id will be listed after Default in Name & Extension.

  • save the file somewhere, and then go to preferences > users and groups
  • choose your user account, and go to login items
  • click the + icon, and add the automator application you just created.
  • restart, and your chrome app should launch as well.
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Default is part of the file name; you should be using the path /Users/mikeheavers/Applications/Chrome\ Apps.localized/Default\ afhcomalholahplbjhnmahkoekoijban.app

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