Login automatically to 1Password mini

helppls

Hi: When I restart/reboot my MBP (fresh install Yosemite 10.10.3), I wish to be prompted to login into mini. Could this be considered as a feature request?

I desire this, so I am ready to go rather than when I first go to use it, I am prompted. This is not desirable for me as it stops my workflow (train of thought).

To accomplish my desire, these are the steps I followed, but sadly failed - did not work!
1. opened OSX system preferences
2. navigated to user/groups
3. clicked on current user, clicked Login items
4. Added 1Password (the one with icon) --- so maybe I have not added 1Password mini but 1Password Desktop Application
5. Click Hide

What I had desired was to be prompted with master code on login directly into 1Password Mini. Did not happen.
So second option, would be 1Password Desktop big ugly thing open up just for the passcode, I enter and immediately close. It is not stored in my dock as it is not a tool I use for work. Did not happen. I had to close it manually and it halted the login script waiting for code. Rather than be ready and waiting for me to enter the code. It is the last thing on the osx login list of the apps.

Any ideas to improve ?

Thankyou for your time in reading my request.

littlebobbytables

Hi @helppls,

If I add the main 1Password application to my Login Items in System Preferences > Users & Groups it loads for me on boot up. You can't have the Hide checkbox ticked but then that wouldn't seem to make sense to me as you want the application visible, unless I've misunderstood the goal.

You should have a single entry in your Login Items titled 1Password 5 and the Hide box unchecked. Is this what you have and can you describe in a bit more detail what you mean by did not happen please as I'm curious to your next statement when you said

I had to close it manually and it halted the login script waiting for code.

I did try a script for sending the keyboard command ⌥⌘\ but 1Password mini closed after the script finished executing and itself had timing issues. I think the issue is 1Password mini is sensitive to what is going on around it and as I'm not aware of a way to control the load order I don't know how practical it would be to have it display the lock screen.

We will consider the request though.

helppls

Thankyou littlebobbytales.

Maybe, an alternative logic is to have preference launch 1Password mini in open window state (so its ready for your login) and then one knows they have not yet logged in.

To reply to your ponderment
I'm not aware of a way to control the load order I
Me neither. I have read on apple forum the order in Login Items is the control. So if I want 1Password to load last, it is on the last. But I know from testing, if an app as start as login in the preference option, it will load AFTER these login items.

To reply to your question

• You do want 1Password Desktop hidden. I do not want it appear on my dock
• You do want 1Password Mini shown, so you can login

For some strange reason to me Agile are appearing to treat 1Password Desktop and Mini as the same app. This is not osx world. In OSX the droplet, the status bar app, the desktop app are all different, each being entitled to unique preferences. The user interacts with these access points very uniquely. The use-case's are very different. The more a user knows OSX or loves OSX maybe, the more they hang out in these different places. The dock is the starting point and typically a user evolves to the other places as they discover and utilize them more and more.

danco

How about a script (AppleScript, shell script, automator) running at login that waits for a while and then opens 1PW mini. If you get the timing right, the wait would be long enough to cover completing the startup items, including 1PW mini itself.

Drew_AG

Thanks for your feedback and requests, @helppls! I can't make any promises, but as littlebobbytables said, we'll consider the requests and can let our developers know about that. For now, I don't know for sure if you'll be able to get mini to work at startup the way you want, although hopefully the other suggestions here are helpful. The main app should launch at startup if you add that to your login items in System Preferences > Users & Groups, but then it will appear in the Dock until you quit.

We're here for you if you need anything else! :)