How to enable Sunshine at boot (not just at login) on macOS?

[jfly]

Select Topic Area

Question

Body

I've recently installed Sunshine on a macOS machine. The installation went well. I think it had me run some launchctl command to enable autostart at login, which works well.

However, I've noticed that when I reboot, Sunshine doesn't start up until I log into my user account. I can work around this by enabling autologin, but then that means anyone who reboots my computer has access to my desktop environment.

Is there some way to get the Sunshine user service to start when my machine boots without enabling autologin?

I've read through LizardByte/Sunshine#1909, but I believe it's talking about a different thing.

[ReenigneArcher]

For macOS I'm not sure. This is probably a general homebrew question though (not specific to Sunshine) so maybe you can search around and let us know if you find a way?

[ouzc12358]

nano ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.lizardbyte.sunshine.plist
`

Label com.lizardbyte.sunshine ProgramArguments /usr/local/bin/sunshine RunAtLoad KeepAlive StandardOutPath /tmp/sunshine.out StandardErrorPath /tmp/sunshine.err `

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.lizardbyte.sunshine.plist

[livilivi]

I think this require a Feature Request.
It means Sunshine should be able to run on the LoginScreen Session. Like Parsec's special version, it would work as follows:

1. You connect to the LoginScreen Session (like a Linux DM) with Sunshine;
2. Type your password click Login, then the LoginScreen Session and Sunshine terminate. You get disconnected;
3. The Mac enters the Desktop and starts another Sunshine instance as the logged-in user;
4. You can now reconnect to the desktop.

The key point is that Sunshine should require TCC permission to run under the LoginScreen (I suspect this needs 'Remote Desktop' permission, not just 'Screen Recording'). via SSH, launchctl list shows Sunshine is launched by /Library/LaunchAgents/*.plist but it is unable to record.