In this guide, we will show you the steps to disable the auto start of Citrix Workspace at boot up on your Mac. This digital workspace software platform from Citrix is often touted as its flagship product and one couldn’t deny the same, after having a look at the slew of nifty features that it beholds. However, it would have been much better if its start-up behavior was in line with a flagship product.
This is because as soon as you boot up your Mac, Citrix Workspace tends to automatically start every time in the front end, rather than simply carrying out its process in the backend. In this regard, some have even said that if they disable it under Login Items, then Workspace doesn’t even load when they need to access it.
Whereas, for others, it’s altogether absent from the Login Items. With that said, there does exist a nifty workaround through which you could effectively address this issue once and for all. So without further ado, let’s check it out.
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How to Disable Auto Start of Citrix WorkSpace at Boot Up on Mac
The culprit behind this issue is two lines of command in the com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist file which is present under the directory Macintosh > Library > Launch Agents. So to rectify it, you will have to delete those two lines of commands, via Terminal or Text Editor. [Note: some users simply deleted the com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist file and so far it has worked for them. But we haven’t tried that out yet so we cannot comment if it would have any adverse impact or not].
Via Terminal
- Launch Finder and go to Macintosh > Library > Launch Agents.
- Then right-click on com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist and select Open with > Terminal.
- Now type in the below command in the Terminal
sudo vi /Library/LaunchAgents/com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist - Type in your password and then scroll to the below command
<string> /usr/local/libexec/Citrix Workspace Helper.app/Contents/macOS/Citrix Workspace Helper </string> - It would be displayed under two lines in the Terminal window.
- So use dd once to delete the first line and dd again to delete the second.
- Once done, type in the below commands to save the changes and exit Terminal
:wq!
Via Text Editor App
- Launch Finder and go to Macintosh > Library > Launch Agents.
- Then right-click on com.citrix.ReceiverHelper.plist and select Open with > Text Edit.
- Now scroll to the below command delete it from the file, and hit Ctrl+S to save it.
<string> /usr/local/libexec/Citrix Workspace Helper.app/Contents/macOS/Citrix Workspace Helper </string>
That’s it. These were the two different methods to disable the auto start of Citrix Workspace at boot up on your Mac. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
