[robg adds: Hmmm, can you visualize how cool a miniaturized flurry screensaver would look, darting about behind 50 minimized windows? Heh...]
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Running a screensaver as a desktop, which this hint explains how to do for Jaguar, works for Panther too. However, Expose will not operate when the screensaver is running, even if it is running as a desktop.
[robg adds: Hmmm, can you visualize how cool a miniaturized flurry screensaver would look, darting about behind 50 minimized windows? Heh...]
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10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
it does work in Panther and for me, but I get the following message in the terminal: The "IgnoreForEvents" window property is obsolete. Use CGSSetWindowTags with kCGSIgnoreForEventsTagBit flag instead. Set a break-point on CGSLogMessage to find out where this property is set.
After that, loads of things act up, such as CMD-tab does not work anymore.
10.3: FIX ???
I was curious and went to Expose preferences and set a corner (in addidtion to expose's) to acrivate Screen Saver. I then went to my expose corner, and Expose Works. :)
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
A few other things to note:
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
Cool CMD-Tab. Try Command Tab when Expose is activated. It will toggle through the Single Application Expose, moving all windows of a single app while still visible.
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
This problem also affects BlackLight due to it using the screen effects engine. If you want screen effect backgrounds back, please file a bug report with apple.
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
Hey try X back, it's an app available from macupdates.com and puts screen savers on the background, and well just check out the sweet way that it fades out of the background when you go into Expose, and the fades back in when you go back out of Expose
other free way
Hum... You could also try CoolBackground (see versiontracker) wich is 10.3 compliant and always free (but donations are accepted ;) )
Fixed a long standing problem
Now with the screensaver in the background, you can mount and eject CDs too... This is not possible in Jaguar!
Not a problem...
I suspect you don't have your screensaver in Panther set to ask for a password. You can mount CDs and DVDs in Jaguar with screensaver-background as long as your screensaver wasn't locked with a password. It's a security feature, I suspect.
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
You'll all be happy to know I submitted this as bug during the summer when I noticed it. Can't comment on the status though. But it also affects the hot corners for the screen saver and expose...which don't work after the screensaver is invoked manually.
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
actually it doesn't work in the same way as in Jaguar
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
Uh... Could you 'splain that again, in English? ;-}
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
I didn't know about OnMyCommand before
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
I think this may have stopped working for you because the default shell environment changed for Panther to
bash instead of tcsh, and I *think* the default bash behaviour is to kill all background processes when you exit the shell.
Can anyone confirm this? I'm a
If this is the case, then changing your shell (back) to tcsh would fix it (using the
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
Try xBack
10.3: Desktop screensaver trick breaks Exposé
Would rather use a freeware. 12$ for a GUI... Try also CoolBackground http://coolbackground.couthouis.com/ wich is free.
Doesn't fix the Exposé problem
While this is a fairly nice gui for the hint, expose and cmd-tabbing still don't work properly. |
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