[PD] Fwd: PD crashes on launch + fullscreen workaround

[marie blender]

hello,

i am interested in fullscreen display on a macmini. is there another  
way to achieve this without the orobor workaround? i need it for a  
setup in a gallery so it should be easy to handle.

thanks for any hints

de




Am 14.10.2005 um 19:46 schrieb simon wise:

> I recently ran a Gem patch for a 2 week season of a show using pd  
> 0.38 on a similar Minimac without problems.
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> 0.39 (Pd-0.39test2-extended-RC0 from Hans, Gem 0.90, Macmini 1.42,  
> 1GB ram, OSX 10.4.2) seems to be stable as well - but [pix_movie]  
> seems broken - it plays a very zoomed-in version of quicktime  
> movies (all codecs that I have tried), on both the Minimac and my  
> much slower old Powerbook (OSX 10.4.2). [pix_film] works fine. The  
> rest of the patch seems fine.
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> [openpanel] also seems to stop responding occasionally, though only  
> when I am testing things, never in performance - I think this is  
> when I have a file open with [textfile], then try to open the same  
> file again with [openpanel] - but I am trying to isolate the  
> problem a bit better.
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> The Macmini has been a great (and not expensive) way to run  
> projectors except for one big problem - I only have clumsy  
> workarounds to get fullscreen images to the single main display.  
> Today I discovered the best yet - but it is still a mess:
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> OroborOSX has the option of "hide menu and dock" for a presentation  
> mode, it also has the option to "interleave X11 and Aqua windows"  
> so with Gem running fullscreen I switch to OroborOSX then use  
> Expose (all windows) and pick the Gem window
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> -Gem is now the frontmost window
> -OroborOSX remains in focus so there is no menu or dock visible  
> (and pd does not put its other windows in front of the gem window)
> -and the gem window does not get moved down (exposing its titlebar)  
> as usually happens when the other pd windows are hidden or the Gem  
> window is the last Aqua window open.
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> (all my control is via midi so I don't need pd in focus - but even  
> using -nogui the terminal window stays in front of the Gem window  
> and if that is hidden the Gem window is moved down to show its  
> title bar).
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> It is clumsy, but it works.
>
> Simon
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> On 5 Oct 2005, at 3:35 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:
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>>> Hello list,
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>>> a friend of mine with not so much experience in pd wants to use  
>>> one of my  patches in a concert, but had bad luck with the  
>>> installation of pd. I  can't help him, because we're 1000 Km  
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>> yes, the pd 0.39 version crashes reliably on my Minimac. Haven't  
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>> all the best,
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