I was trying to get full screen zoom to work in Lion (don't know why it doesn't) and I read a hint that told me to go to System Preferences » Universal Access and turn the 'Zoom in window' checkbox on and back off again. It worked fine for me but when my friend did it he got stuck zoomed into the middle of his screen.
After many unsuccessful attempts to escape, including remote screen sharing, shortcut keys to disable screen sharing (which again I don't know why they don't work in Lion) we succeeded with this plan and this might help you if all else fails. I don't know if rebooting would help, he didn't want to risk losing his code so it was only last resort.
[crarko adds: Nothing really earthshaking here, but I'm a soft touch for persistence and creativity in problem solving.]
After many unsuccessful attempts to escape, including remote screen sharing, shortcut keys to disable screen sharing (which again I don't know why they don't work in Lion) we succeeded with this plan and this might help you if all else fails. I don't know if rebooting would help, he didn't want to risk losing his code so it was only last resort.
- On another Mac I wrote and tested an AppleScript. I saved it as plain text and made it executable using chmod 0755 on the file.
- We ssh'd it to his computer so he could execute it.
- He started Terminal using Spotlight.
- He pressed Command+N several times until a Terminal window cascaded itself into view.
- He ran the script file and presto, it worked.
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "System Events" to set frontmost of process "System Preferences" to true
tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
tell radio group 3 of tab group 1 of window 1
tell radio button 2
click
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
[crarko adds: Nothing really earthshaking here, but I'm a soft touch for persistence and creativity in problem solving.]
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