Icon appears on desktop on restart?

Questions & Suggestions
1

I see the icon below every time I restart my Mac. I am running Sonoma 14.5 on an Apple Silicon MBP.

It has been doing this for something like a year or so, and I have just ignored it. But I would like to fix this.

Perhaps I should try to delete preferences?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bryan

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2

You have a macro that puts this palette on your desktop. Identify and change the macro.

3

Is this a notification pop-up window, which disappears after a few seconds? Or is it a file that appears on your desktop that stays until you drag it into the trash? It's hard to tell from that small screenshot.

Regardless, the first think you should do is open the KM Editor and enter these 13 characters in the search box:

trigger:login

This will show you the macros that have a trigger to launch at login. My main theory is that you have a macro that launches at login that somehow results in that icon being shown.

You could test my theory. Instead of rebooting, try a logout and login. If it still happens, then the trigger is not related to rebooting, but to logging in. This might help narrow the cause.

I'm not sure that my advice here will result in a solution. Maybe other people can spot the problem without these tests.

4

That was it! I changed the Macro so it doesn't appear in the palette.

Thank you very much

5

It was in a palette, like the original responder wondered.

Your tip is a good one, however.

Thanks!

6

I installed UI Browser 4.0 months ago when it came out. Now, the installer disk keeps reappearing every time I restart my Mac. So, I keep ejecting it. But why is this happening?
I tried searching for “trigger:login”, but it wasn’t being mounted there. It doesn’t reappear on logout/login, only when the Mac is restarted. Any ideas?

7

Check your System-level LaunchDaemon folder -- /System/Library/LaunchDaemons for any plist file that references the UI Browser disk image.

8

There was nothing in /System/LIbrary/LaunchDaemons that was relevant ot the problem.

So, I deleted UI Browser using AppCleaner and that solved the problem, as I expected. However, now I can’t seem to get a working version of UI Browser 3.0.4 or 4.0. I’m stuck.