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 Sep 1 2008, 01:30 PM
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Hi. We are using 2 mac mini's as DVD kiosks. The user has a trackball with left lick to navigate the menus. I'm having trouble locking down the mini. I'd like a way to display the dvd player full screen and lock out the dvd player menus so it can't be re-sized, quit, used to get into the finder, etc. I have a lot of experience with tiger, bot so much with leopard. We use an imac with wKiosk and it works great, but is browser based. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Sep 5 2008, 09:49 AM
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Hi Adam:
QUOTE (adam @ Sep 1 2008, 11:30 PM)  I'd like a way to display the dvd player full screen and lock out the dvd player menus so it can't be re-sized, quit, used to get into the finder, etc. There is a "haxie" called Menufela that lets you configure a kiosk mode, but this application only works with 10.4 Tiger. You must not run it on a Leopard machine, though, as it will break the system! Another method, described by MacWorld's Rob Griffiths is based on using an application's LSUIPresentationMode property, so you can un/hide the Dock and/or menu bar for that specific app. But this will only provide autohide behavior, so they will show up as soon as the mouse pointer is moved to the upper or lower edges of the screen. I'm afraid I haven't found any method to hide the Dock and the menubar completely to create a true kiosk environment that wouldn't involve programming. Maybe another forum reader can help? Jochen. |
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Oct 27 2008, 05:25 PM
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QUOTE (jochenWolters @ Sep 5 2008, 05:49 PM) Hi Adam: There is a "haxie" called Menufela that lets you configure a kiosk mode, but this application only works with 10.4 Tiger. You must not run it on a Leopard machine, though, as it will break the system! Another method, described by MacWorld's Rob Griffiths is based on using an application's LSUIPresentationMode property, so you can un/hide the Dock and/or menu bar for that specific app. But this will only provide autohide behavior, so they will show up as soon as the mouse pointer is moved to the upper or lower edges of the screen. I'm afraid I haven't found any method to hide the Dock and the menubar completely to create a true kiosk environment that wouldn't involve programming. Maybe another forum reader can help? Jochen. hey, Jochen, thank you! great job, man!  -------------------- |
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Jul 23 2009, 12:39 AM
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Put your DVD on your mobile devices on Mac use dvd ripper for mac
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Nov 11 2009, 02:29 AM
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it is a good day today
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