I'm running BoincManager 7.0.31 on a Late 2009 Mac mini with Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.5 (NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB to a 1920x1080 DVI monitor).
Under BoincManager, I run SETI, Rosetta, and Einstein@home.
All was going fine until a few weeks ago (I can't remember if it happened at the same time as a system update, or just when I plugged the monitors' DVI-miniDisplayPort adaptor back into the Mac mini, having had it plugged into my MacBook Air's thunderbolt port), but at some point, while the other two screensavers have continued to display full screen, the Einstein@home graphics now display in a window in the bottom-left corner of the blacked-out screen. Any ideas about how to get them back to displaying full screen?
What happens when you launch the screen saver with "Show Graphics" from within the BOINC Manager and then resize the window? Does the content scale with the window size?
What happens when you launch the screen saver with "Show Graphics" from within the BOINC Manager and then resize the window? Does the content scale with the window size?
Cheers,
Oliver
Hi Oliver,
When I do that, the window initially comes up the same size as it displays in the corner of the screen when the screensaver comes up, except that the controls are active (in the screensaver, the window title bar is visible, but backgrounded (greyed-out)). When I zoom it, the content scales properly, but it's still a screen-sized window, not a full-screen view. Changing the size of the "Show Graphics" window doesn't stick, either when I go back to "Show Graphics" or for the screensaver. The rosetta@home "Show Graphics" behaves the same way, but still has proper full-screen graphics when it comes around on the screensaver. seti@home has the current task stuck on 'waiting to run' for some reason, so "Show Graphics" is not available.
but it's still a screen-sized window, not a full-screen view.
That's normal. "Show graphics" isn't meant to start the screensaver, it starts the graphics in windowed-mode which allows you to interact with the visualisation (press "s" for example, use left/right mouse drag, etc.).
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Changing the size of the "Show Graphics" window doesn't stick, either when I go back to "Show Graphics" or for the screensaver.
Okay, I changed the default pixels from 800x600 to 1920x1080 (and updated the project from boincmanager) - the screensaver still came up showing (most of) a (backgrounded) window, not a proper full-screen view - and the bottom 22 pixels of the image were off-screen (to make way for the window title bar to show). I tried some smaller values for the window size, and realised that even when the graphics window was 800x600, it had been anchoring the bottom-left of the image to a point 22 pixels below the bottom-left of the screen.
I've put it back to 1920x1080, which while still not a proper full-screen screensaver, is much better than it was. Still doesn't explain why einstein@home used to work properly and stopped while rosetta@home and seti@home are still working.
Each project's screensaver is different, as are the science applications. Our's seemingly doesn't work properly anymore on your machine :-/ Did you change anything WRT your operating system or the graphics drivers?
einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin
* Make it executable: chmod +x einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin
* Run it as screensaver: ./einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin --fullscreen
I just tried it on my OS X 10.8.2 system and it worked as expected.
einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin
* Make it executable: chmod +x einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin
* Run it as screensaver: ./einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin --fullscreen
I just tried it on my OS X 10.8.2 system and it worked as expected.
Best,
Oliver
I've just tried this - it comes up as a window in the bottom-left quarter of the screen - the window looks like a foreground window, and the rest of the screen is not blacked out, but goes away when I move the mouse.
Parallels had similar problems with full-screening in (a version of) OS X 10.7 - they fixed it in an update to Parallels, but I suspect the next thing for me to try is to upgrade to OS X 10.8
einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin
* Make it executable: chmod +x einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin
* Run it as screensaver: ./einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin --fullscreen
I just tried it on my OS X 10.8.2 system and it worked as expected.
Best,
Oliver
I've just tried this - it comes up as a window in the bottom-left quarter of the screen - the window looks like a foreground window, and the rest of the screen is not blacked out, but goes away when I move the mouse.
Parallels had similar problems with full-screening in (a version of) OS X 10.7 - they fixed it in an update to Parallels, but I suspect the next thing for me to try is to upgrade to OS X 10.8
It is now working properly again - the only things that have changed are - 1) I shut down, plugged the monitor into a different computer, shut that down, and plugged back into this one (but I've been doing that every so often anyway, and it hadn't made a difference before) - 2) there was a Java update for Mac OS X 10.7.x
Hello, I'm running
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Hello,
I'm running BoincManager 7.0.31 on a Late 2009 Mac mini with Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.5 (NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB to a 1920x1080 DVI monitor).
Under BoincManager, I run SETI, Rosetta, and Einstein@home.
All was going fine until a few weeks ago (I can't remember if it happened at the same time as a system update, or just when I plugged the monitors' DVI-miniDisplayPort adaptor back into the Mac mini, having had it plugged into my MacBook Air's thunderbolt port), but at some point, while the other two screensavers have continued to display full screen, the Einstein@home graphics now display in a window in the bottom-left corner of the blacked-out screen. Any ideas about how to get them back to displaying full screen?
Thanks,
Steven.
Hi Steven, What happens
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Hi Steven,
What happens when you launch the screen saver with "Show Graphics" from within the BOINC Manager and then resize the window? Does the content scale with the window size?
Cheers,
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project
RE: Hi Steven, What
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Hi Oliver,
When I do that, the window initially comes up the same size as it displays in the corner of the screen when the screensaver comes up, except that the controls are active (in the screensaver, the window title bar is visible, but backgrounded (greyed-out)). When I zoom it, the content scales properly, but it's still a screen-sized window, not a full-screen view. Changing the size of the "Show Graphics" window doesn't stick, either when I go back to "Show Graphics" or for the screensaver. The rosetta@home "Show Graphics" behaves the same way, but still has proper full-screen graphics when it comes around on the screensaver. seti@home has the current task stuck on 'waiting to run' for some reason, so "Show Graphics" is not available.
RE: When I zoom it, the
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Good!
That's normal. "Show graphics" isn't meant to start the screensaver, it starts the graphics in windowed-mode which allows you to interact with the visualisation (press "s" for example, use left/right mouse drag, etc.).
Please visit your project preferences to change that.
Cheers,
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project
RE: Please visit your
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Okay, I changed the default pixels from 800x600 to 1920x1080 (and updated the project from boincmanager) - the screensaver still came up showing (most of) a (backgrounded) window, not a proper full-screen view - and the bottom 22 pixels of the image were off-screen (to make way for the window title bar to show). I tried some smaller values for the window size, and realised that even when the graphics window was 800x600, it had been anchoring the bottom-left of the image to a point 22 pixels below the bottom-left of the screen.
I've put it back to 1920x1080, which while still not a proper full-screen screensaver, is much better than it was. Still doesn't explain why einstein@home used to work properly and stopped while rosetta@home and seti@home are still working.
Each project's screensaver is
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Each project's screensaver is different, as are the science applications. Our's seemingly doesn't work properly anymore on your machine :-/ Did you change anything WRT your operating system or the graphics drivers?
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project
Can you please try the
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Can you please try the following:
einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin
* Make it executable: chmod +x einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin
* Run it as screensaver: ./einsteinbinary_BRP4_1.00_graphics_i686-apple-darwin --fullscreen
I just tried it on my OS X 10.8.2 system and it worked as expected.
Best,
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project
RE: Can you please try the
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I've just tried this - it comes up as a window in the bottom-left quarter of the screen - the window looks like a foreground window, and the rest of the screen is not blacked out, but goes away when I move the mouse.
Parallels had similar problems with full-screening in (a version of) OS X 10.7 - they fixed it in an update to Parallels, but I suspect the next thing for me to try is to upgrade to OS X 10.8
RE: RE: Can you please
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It is now working properly again - the only things that have changed are - 1) I shut down, plugged the monitor into a different computer, shut that down, and plugged back into this one (but I've been doing that every so often anyway, and it hadn't made a difference before) - 2) there was a Java update for Mac OS X 10.7.x
Strange... But anyway,
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Strange... But anyway, problem solved :-)
Best,
Oliver
Einstein@Home Project