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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