Autostart

The Autostart mechanism provides an easy way to automatically start applications whenever the computer is started (to be precise, when a user is logged into a graphical desktop session). Applications can be either .app bundles or .AppDir directories.

• System-wide autostart: Place applications (or symlinks to applications) into the /Applications/Autostart folder to have them started for all users of the computer

• ~Per-user autostart: Place applications (or symlinks to applications) into the ~/Applications/Autostart folder (in your home folder) to have them started for all users of the computer. You can create the folder if it does not exist yet~

The launch command is invoked for each of those applications and launches the applications.