10.5: Auto-start G4FanControl in 10.5

Under tiger I used an app called G4FanControl on my PowerBook G4 to keep it from being uncomfortably hot when pushing it hard. The GUI version runs under Leopard, but requires you to run it every time you log in, and enter your password. Once you do this, you also have to re-set your temperatures because the app does not remember them. I found a very easy way to circumvent this annoyance. First, download the CLI version of the utility, then create a script that has chmod 755 permissions which will call the app with the needed flags. Once this is complete, you can use a utility called Lingon that can create a launchd entry easily. Point it at your script, and it will now run at startup (pre login screen). This will set the temperature once per boot. To ...
Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:30:04 +0100

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