Xhooks

What is Xhooks

Xhooks is a collection of OS modifications, scripts, and utilities that make it easy to configure and automate maintenance on Mac OS X computers.  The scope of Xhooks is fairly large, but it is modular so you can pick bits and pieces if you would like.  It contains hacks and utilities that aren't available elsewhere (or aren't easily available like hping2, SetDisplay, and Screen Preserver) so you may want to borrow pieces just for that purpose.

Xhooks has many parts

• Xhooks System Hooks are preferences, launchd plist files, and scripts that tell the system to do certain things at certain times such as startup, login,logout, etc.,.
  
• Xhook Modules are specific pieces that do specific tasks.  For example, some people might only want Screen Preserver.  If that is all you want, then just use that module.  If you only want to use SetDisplay, then only use that module.

If you want to be notified when we release Xhooks or you want to help develop or test Xhooks, please contact us!

Xhooks Version 7 - Public Release 1

We are proud to announce the public first release of Xhooks. Version 7 is the first version released to the public.

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To find out more, please read the Readme

10.5 Logout Saver Screen Preserver Download

Apple changed how things work in Mac OS X 10.5 when nobody is logged in.  Apps will not show a GUI unless they are customized to do so.  Thus, Apple's ScreenSaverEngine will no longer run at the loginwindow.

Screen Preserver is the only way to run a screen saver over the loginwindow on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (AFAIK).

We have updated it and added many features since we are now anticipating a demand for this.

Source code included.  Original author is Andrew Mortensen, all additions are by James Reynolds, who is the current maintainer.

• 10.5 Logout Saver/Screen Preserver .52
  

Radmind Xhooks Conf

This script reads the radmind command files and saves settings to several config/preferences files that are to be used by other apps or scripts.  It doesn't actually change any system config files.

I consider this script to be one of the jewels of Xhooks.  The people who worked on it include David Donaldson, Ben Martin, and James Reynolds (me).

Full instructions are included in the script.

radmind_xhooks_conf – PL-File, 10.7 KB