three sixths

Defining Startup Apps on MacOS

One particular annoyance I've had lately is seeing:

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon. Is 'docker daemon' running on this host?

when I run a Docker command in the CLI.

This stems from Docker Desktop not running.

I'm a developer!
I always want it running!!

I like to version control my setup, so I added the following line to always start Docker Desktop on startup:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to make login item at end with properties {name:"Docker", path:"/Applications/Docker.app", hidden:false}'

Now my .macos settings are slightly better :D

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