Launch apps hidden?

[Felix]

I was wondering if I could use a workflow to start a bunch of apps that I normally have running but don’t want to open at startup because it slows things down too much.

 

Is there a way to launch the apps hidden? (Of course, it could be done with a script, but I’ve never done any scripting, so that would take me a lot longer than using the options in Alfred menus.)

[Rivers]

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[jdfwarrior]

I was wondering if I could use a workflow to start a bunch of apps that I normally have running but don’t want to open at startup because it slows things down too much.

 

Is there a way to launch the apps hidden? (Of course, it could be done with a script, but I’ve never done any scripting, so that would take me a lot longer than using the options in Alfred menus.)

 

 

i would like to know this also

 

I haven't tested this but, it appears that there is an option on the "open" terminal command that will launch apps either in the background OR hidden.

::open --
Usage: open [-e] [-t] [-f] [-W] [-R] [-n] [-g] [-h] [-b <bundle identifier>] [-a <application>] [filenames] [--args arguments]
Help: Open opens files from a shell.
      By default, opens each file using the default application for that file.  
      If the file is in the form of a URL, the file will be opened as a URL.
Options: 
      -a                Opens with the specified application.
      -b                Opens with the specified application bundle identifier.
      -e                Opens with TextEdit.
      -t                Opens with default text editor.
      -f                Reads input from standard input and opens with TextEdit.
      -F  --fresh       Launches the app fresh, that is, without restoring windows. Saved persistent state is lost, excluding Untitled documents.
      -R, --reveal      Selects in the Finder instead of opening.
      -W, --wait-apps   Blocks until the used applications are closed (even if they were already running).
          --args        All remaining arguments are passed in argv to the application's main() function instead of opened.
      -n, --new         Open a new instance of the application even if one is already running.
      -j, --hide        Launches the app hidden.
      -g, --background  Does not bring the application to the foreground.
      -h, --header      Searches header file locations for headers matching the given filenames, and opens them.

These are the command line switches for the open command..

 

Given this, it appears that you could create a workflow with a Run Script item and then tell it each application to launch using "open" and passing either the -j or -g option and launch the apps in their desired state.

 

Exmaple:

open -j /Applications/TextEdit.app