Oct 28, '03 11:06:00AM • Contributed by: sergeantmudd
[robg adds: Wow. Matrix Revolutions trailer running full-screen behind a couple windows as I type this. Very impressive! Not sure it's practical, but it makes a great demo!]
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10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
Oct 28, '03 11:06:00AM • Contributed by: sergeantmudd
If you have Quicktime Pro, it is easy to play a movie as your desktop. Play a movie using Quicktime as fullscreen, then press F11, which shows the desktop. The fullscreen movie slides up to reveal the desktop, and than you can select the Finder. After selecting the Finder, just press F11 again, and the movie slides down and plays as the desktop, and you are free to use any application.
[robg adds: Wow. Matrix Revolutions trailer running full-screen behind a couple windows as I type this. Very impressive! Not sure it's practical, but it makes a great demo!]
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10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
Kudos! This is an *awesome* hint! Just made me grin and I needed to right now!
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
There is an easier way to do this...grab a copy of DeskSaver and the SaveHollywood screensaver, then you can playlist your desktop as movies.
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
Mike,
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
Well, in the short run I can see this being easy, but I was just informing everyone of the ability to actually playlist movies as their desktop background. All I do right now to start mine up is click DeskSaver in my dock and *boom*, random full screen movie desktop. The initial setup is longer, but the extensibility of the Save Hollywood/Desksaver method is greater.
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
Oh, and you don't have to own QT Pro to do it my way...and you can still use your finder (open windows, see icons, etc) while the movie is running.
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
Um, why does my F11 not work?
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
F11 does nothing for me. F11 is the default Exposé hotkey to show you the desktop, moving everything else off to the side. I don't have 10.3 yet so I don't know where the setting can be found, but I'm sure it is in the System Preferences somewhere. Maybe you changed the default hotkey away from F11?
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
oddly enough, i did not change any of the Expose hotkeys, but looking at them, they are all modified.
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
I say: WOW!
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
Kill Bill Vol. I makes a very nice backgound as well. If I could just quit staring at Uma and get back to work...
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
Erm, what's the use of this hint? In my test, cmd-tab switched applications just fine with QuickTime running fullscreen. I could switch to the Finder without using Exposé.
10.2: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
This is not new in 10.3
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
that was possible with 10.2 Jaguar, too. QT Pro playing fullscreen and pressing APPLE - TAB. ;-)
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
The title is a bit misleading. You're not really playing the movie on the desktop. You're just placing a large, full-screen window behind the window in which you're working.
10.3: Play a movie on the desktop using Exposé
I know I'm a year late on this, but I wanted to comment on this tip. Using Quicktime and Expose as a desktop movie player is excellent, but not as good as Monkeybreadsoftware's Desktop Movie Player (www.monkeybreadsoftware.de). Not only is it free, and drag-and-dropable, but you have access to your icons as well! It is a CPU hog, but as long as I can access my desktop folders and function just as I would wiht a regular desktop, I'm using Desktop Movie Player. |
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