Well, this seemed cool to me. We started up a quicktime movie ( in our case perversion for profit), and then went into full screen mode. Now, by command tabbing and selecting the finder, you get the movie as a desktop. Worked very smoothly on a duak gig, very impressive. We flipped between a lot of apps, had a bunch of windows layer above, and even did some transparency on the terminal. The movie just keeps chugging along.
There is this interesting little thing, in the terminal type:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false; killall Dock
This little trick changes the show desktop F11 Expose animation, and instead of moving all the windows off screen it shrinks them into a little movable window. To turn it off just change false to true.
There is this interesting little thing, in the terminal type:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false; killall Dock
This little trick changes the show desktop F11 Expose animation, and instead of moving all the windows off screen it shrinks them into a little movable window. To turn it off just change false to true.
Heh, if you notice, enabling this adds another wvous-pip-blah-blah property with scale, positioning values. I tried changing the scale to 4...which worked...but subsequently froze the GUI other than the cursor. A forceful logout via rehupping the windowserver fixed it. I delete that value from the dock property list immediately.
EDIT: It seems you don't need to change the other values to freeze the windowserver.
Wow the blob is very interesting. I wonder why they would add such a nice "Fade" animation to a hidden feature.
I'm guessing it was used for internal testing at Apple for implementing Exposé. And as to why it's made nice if it's not a real feature..? Well, you know what happens when you spend too much time writing code...
I like what ChrisG mentioned, it's like Minimize in Place for Exposé. I like it better than any MIP dock hack I've ever used.
ip.p.s. to take a cue from a-dock, i also don't understand why there can't be a way to toggle a small pixel bar along whatever edge the dock is for when it is set to auto-hide. i can't tell you how maddening it is whenever i sat down at a co-worker's desk to troubleshoot a file, and they had their dock set to "auto-hide," and i had to scrub three different screen sides to find the bloody thing, because everyone wanted their in a different place
This force quits the front-most running App. It DOES NOT work on the Finder (sadly). But, this is way faster than any other force quit method (in my opinion)
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Originally posted by blue2kdave
not new to Panther, 10.3:
Well, this seemed cool to me. We started up a quicktime movie ( in our case perversion for profit), and then went into full screen mode. Now, by command tabbing and selecting the finder, you get the movie as a desktop. Worked very smoothly on a duak gig, very impressive. We flipped between a lot of apps, had a bunch of windows layer above, and even did some transparency on the terminal. The movie just keeps chugging along.
well don't i feel corrected
Originally posted by Ra
Try it out... it's harmless. If you want to get rid of it, do the same command but type 'false' instead of 'true.'
How about, for those of us who haven't installed Panther yet, you give an actual answer? We're curious too, you know.
Originally posted by Kickaha
How about, for those of us who haven't installed Panther yet, you give an actual answer? We're curious too, you know.
You don't exist!
It puts a transparent blue blob on your screen, like you can drag around like the Speech thing or Clock.app.
Click it, and it tiles the frontmost application's windows.
Option clicking it tiles all windows!
(now it's useful for me lol)
Barto
Click on it and it exposes the front apps windows. Option click it and it exposes all windows. (Like Barto said).
Originally posted by DHagan4755
Speaking of hacks (ha, ha) ...is Panther carbon or is it cocoa?
Which part. AFAIK, the Finder is still Carbon.
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false; killall Dock
This little trick changes the show desktop F11 Expose animation, and instead of moving all the windows off screen it shrinks them into a little movable window. To turn it off just change false to true.
Originally posted by ChrisG
There is this interesting little thing, in the terminal type:
Code:
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false; killall Dock
This little trick changes the show desktop F11 Expose animation, and instead of moving all the windows off screen it shrinks them into a little movable window. To turn it off just change false to true.
Heh, if you notice, enabling this adds another wvous-pip-blah-blah property with scale, positioning values. I tried changing the scale to 4...which worked...but subsequently froze the GUI other than the cursor. A forceful logout via rehupping the windowserver fixed it. I delete that value from the dock property list immediately.
EDIT: It seems you don't need to change the other values to freeze the windowserver.
Command-click on an icon in the dock, and it will show the app or folder in the Finder. I just noticed this yesterday.
Originally posted by Mount_my_floppy
Wow the blob is very interesting. I wonder why they would add such a nice "Fade" animation to a hidden feature.
I'm guessing it was used for internal testing at Apple for implementing Exposé. And as to why it's made nice if it's not a real feature..? Well, you know what happens when you spend too much time writing code...
I like what ChrisG mentioned, it's like Minimize in Place for Exposé. I like it better than any MIP dock hack I've ever used.
Originally posted by Eugene
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A forceful logout via rehupping the windowserver fixed it.
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How is this done? Killing the windowserver, that is.
Originally posted by Spart
How is this done? Killing the windowserver, that is.
I ssh'd into the box from another computer and did a "kill -HUP"
Originally posted by rok
ip.p.s. to take a cue from a-dock, i also don't understand why there can't be a way to toggle a small pixel bar along whatever edge the dock is for when it is set to auto-hide. i can't tell you how maddening it is whenever i sat down at a co-worker's desk to troubleshoot a file, and they had their dock set to "auto-hide," and i had to scrub three different screen sides to find the bloody thing, because everyone wanted their in a different place
Reveal that teasy dock
Cmd - Opt - D
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false; killall Dock
Press cmd-option-shift-esc
This force quits the front-most running App. It DOES NOT work on the Finder (sadly). But, this is way faster than any other force quit method (in my opinion)
Originally posted by Spaztik
Does anyone know how to get this to work without freezing up the GUI? I really like the look of this hidden feature!
Code:
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false; killall Dock
I think it would have been an officially recognized feature if it worked right...
Did this make the final version?
Originally posted by kcmac
TextEdit drop shadows. I can't see how to do this. I open the fonts panel in TE and I don't see a button that I can click or a menu item .
Did this make the final version?
Make sure the font box is large enough and then click the button that is blue here:
Tooltips will explain the options if you wait for them to appear. And, no, you can't change from degree mode to radian mode.
I had the font panel as small as I could make it and couldn't see these options.