OS X Fullscreen on display 1 (was: Re: [PD] Fwd: PD crashes on launch + fullscreen workaround)
Max Neupert
abonnements at revolwear.com
Sun Oct 23 13:49:18 CEST 2005
Hi list,
chris mentioned that in the CVS (I guess the GemCVS) this is solved.
how do you control to show/hide the menue in the GemCVS version?
max
Am 23.10.2005 um 12:38 schrieb 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
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> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> [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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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
>>
>> -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.
>>
>> (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).
>>
>> It is clumsy, but it works.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> On 5 Oct 2005, at 3:35 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> jmmmp schrieb:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello list,
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>> apart and I use windows, he OsX. Has this happened to anybody
>>>> before?
>>>>
>>>>
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