HI all ! Nice thread, no doubt. Will read more later... My concern is about creating a simple way so that anyone that is allowed can easily turn on and off and installation. I mean the whole power, not just the sound or video. Of course, I am more into lasting installations too. ;)
For a window manager. I benchmarked a bit, and I found that Icewm is faster than Fluxbox and some other similar (blackbox and madwm, I think). It looks like Win98, though... For this time, I want no X11 at all, though. a 2007/6/26, simon wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 26 Jun 2007, at 4:40 AM, Max Neupert wrote: > > >> the sleep script works nicely, but the logoff one fails - "shut > >> down" and "sleep" are valid for Finder in an Applescript, but "log > >> out" isn't. > > > > first i think you need to activate UI-Scripting. > > http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/01.html > > > > you'll have in your "System events" applescript library a "power > > suite" folder with > > log out > > found them - they are under "System Events" but not "Finder" > - so the proper Applescript syntax is: > > > > tell application "System Events" > log out > end tell > > > > now the script works properly, > plus using > > [open /Users/simon/sleep.app( > | > [ggee/shell] > > works - Pd quits first, then the system sleeps or logs out or > whatever next. > > > > The "pd quit unexpectedly" error message still gets displayed, it > seems to be a [shell] problem - > I seem to remember a thread about that a year or so ago - I'll search > for it, but it doesn't matter if I just want to log out or shut down > > - thanks for that, my next installations will be cleaner! > > > Do you know a way (in OSX) to create Logout Items similar to Login > Items in the Accounts Preferences? > > to set up timed events I've used CronniX from http:// > www.abstracture.de/cronnix (easy + free GUI to create crontabs => > schedule events eg the Applescripts above) > > > simon > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net http://www.puredata.info/Members/aalex _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
