Xeric Design’s EarthDesk ($20) offers a more detailed solution, turning your desktop image into your window on the world. Using EarthDesk, you can turn your desktop into a virtual satellite view of the planet-day and night boundaries and cloud cover are both updated regularly. If you’re more of a Moon fan, try another free Gary Martin offering called MoonDock It does similar things, but with the moon instead of the sun. You can’t use as large an image of Earth, nor can you see current cloud cover, but an Info window gives you some interesting Earth and sun data. Gary Martin’s EarthGlobe (also free), which does something similar. This free app places a floating image of Earth on your desktop, reflecting the current sunlight coverage on the planet-and even optionally showing cloud cover. If you want a script to run on login for all users, I believe LoginHook is your only option, and that's probably the reason it exists.If you want the high-level view of things, install System-specific launch daemons (placed in /Library/LaunchDaemons) are run on boot. The key is that this is a User-specific launchd entry, so it will be run on login for the given user. Tail /var/log/system.log for error messages. Run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and log out/in to test (or to test directly, run launchctl start ) Replace the after the Program key with your desired command (note that any script referenced by that command must be executable: chmod a+x /path/to/executable/script.sh to ensure it is for all users). Updated 5 for OSX El Capitan and newer (credit to José Messias Jr): Here's the specific plist file to run a script at login. Log in (or run manually via launchctl load )įor more on launchd, the wikipedia article is quite good and describes the system and its advantages over other older systems.plist file according to the instructions in the Apple Dev docs here or more detail below. You can run once or keep alive as a daemon. You'll have full control over all aspects of the script. Tl dr: use OSX's native process launcher and manager, launchd.

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