From 76e4aaf49a579e12928af43c2a8300e60c19fd61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lwouis <lwouis@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:44:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] perf: do login item and plist updates later to accelerate
 launch

---
 src/ui/App.swift                                | 2 ++
 src/ui/preferences-window/tabs/GeneralTab.swift | 7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/ui/App.swift b/src/ui/App.swift
index 16ae98cd..2038ac9d 100644
--- a/src/ui/App.swift
+++ b/src/ui/App.swift
@@ -313,6 +313,8 @@ extension App: NSApplicationDelegate {
         MouseEvents.observe()
         TrackpadEvents.observe()
         CliEvents.observe()
+        // login item and plist updates can be done a bit later, to accelerate launch
+        DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 2) { GeneralTab.startAtLoginCallback() }
         Logger.info("AltTab finished launching")
         #if DEBUG
 //            self.showPreferencesWindow()
diff --git a/src/ui/preferences-window/tabs/GeneralTab.swift b/src/ui/preferences-window/tabs/GeneralTab.swift
index e51a2938..be484f36 100644
--- a/src/ui/preferences-window/tabs/GeneralTab.swift
+++ b/src/ui/preferences-window/tabs/GeneralTab.swift
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class GeneralTab {
     ]
     static var menubarIconDropdown: NSPopUpButton?
     private static var menubarIsVisibleObserver: NSKeyValueObservation?
+    private static var startAtLoginToggle: NSControl?
 
     static func initTab() -> NSView {
         let startAtLogin = TableGroupView.Row(leftTitle: NSLocalizedString("Start at login", comment: ""),
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ class GeneralTab {
         cell.bezelStyle = .regularSquare
         cell.arrowPosition = .arrowAtBottom
         cell.imagePosition = .imageOverlaps
-        startAtLoginCallback(startAtLogin.rightViews[0] as! NSControl)
+        startAtLoginToggle = startAtLogin.rightViews[0] as? NSControl
         Menubar.menubarIconCallback(nil)
         enableDraggingOffMenubarIcon(menuIconShownToggle)
         let table = TableGroupView(width: PreferencesWindow.width)
@@ -83,8 +84,8 @@ class GeneralTab {
     }
 
     /// add/remove plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ depending on the checkbox state
-    static func startAtLoginCallback(_ sender: NSControl) {
-        let sender = sender as! Switch
+    static func startAtLoginCallback(_: NSControl? = nil) {
+        let sender = startAtLoginToggle as! Switch
         // if the user has added AltTab manually as a LoginItem, we remove it, and add AltTab as a LaunchAgent
         // LaunchAgent are the recommended method for open-at-login in recent versions of macos
         if (GeneralTab.self as AvoidDeprecationWarnings.Type).removeLoginItemIfPresent() && sender.state == .off {