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10.5: Easily use Front Row on second display or TV
Authored by: sd on Dec 30, '08 12:43:53PM
Eventually it adds a key "FrontRowUsePreferredDisplayID" in the file "com.apple.frontrow.plist" with the ID of your external display.
See this thread for more info :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7955351


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10.5: assign FrontRow to 2nd display with TVROW | what about boxee?
Authored by: zahadum on Jul 17, '09 08:36:07PM

too bad that this very nice but very ad hoc solution cant be be applied to solve a more general class of screen-handling configurations - so that boxee (or screen-savers, wallpapers, etc) was also included.

apple needs to have a deeper schema for defining system properties & procedures (ie it should be RDF-based).

then it would be possible to query against a particular constraint & find all matching conditons - eg: find "all apps which have a pref for controlling the output screen" -- in which case all those objects could inherit a change to the (bigger) aux display.

the ad-hoc brittleness in the current device configurationis in large part the result of the absence of a proper object model for the osx ddk (apple abandoned a proper native objectiveC-based driver model during the transition from nextstep to osx, and the resulting kludge ("embedded C++") has undermined basic functionality like REAL plugnplay, and prevented the development of userland abstractions that can DYNAMICALLY reconfigure in-kernel driver behavior -- which would prevents the kind of reflection that an RDF-based scheme would require.

anyways, i will settle for hand-tuned support for boxee in the next version of TVROW.

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