I’m having a strange issue every time I jump on a Zoom call. Some kind of conflict where Hook is causing a Zoom window to keep popping up in Zoom which means that I lose control and can’t run Zoom properly.
I try and crash Hook using Activity Monitor but I can’t, it keep re-opening.
I think it has something to do with one of the authorisations that Hook asks you - “Hook wants to control XYZ app”.
How can I reset the authority so that Hook can’t control Zoom?
we haven’t encountered this one before. Is it possible there’s a utility invoking Hook, e.g., a Keyboard Maestro shortcut being invoked to cause Hook’s keyboard shortcut to be typed? Or some other automation?
In any case in the second annotated screenshot of No Linkable Item in … – Hook page you will see instructions for authorizing/de-authorizing Hook per app.
Yes it could be Keyboard Maestro. I know it’s tricky to diagnose as my description is not very clear.
I have taken a screen recording of the issue and will continue to monitor.
I think I will reset all Hook’s application permissions because what I have been doing, probably not smart, is accepting every time it has asked. I will now only grant permission only for those apps that I’m going to need Hook to access.
I actually think the conflict I was experiencing was caused by xbar not Keyboard Maestro. xbar is a menubar app that runs and displays various things and I was using it to run a Hook script which identified when a selected file had hooked items. It was cool as it would show a little hook and a number next to it representing how many hooked items exist (screenshot of menubar below).
However it is not worth the conflicts that somehow were being created. Perhaps a future version of Hook could display this info natively without an external app.