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Just had to post this :-) Spot the differences
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What I see is two systems on one ultrawide curved display: on left, something Snow Leopard or Leopard in superficial appearance, and the right half, something much more contemporary in the same. I would not be surprised to know this somehow involves a KVM bridge utility like Synergy to be able to use both with one mouse and keyboard.
Unfortunately, at this low resolution (maybe the MR forums software’s fault), that’s the best I can suss from what I can make out. There are, however, two head-scratchers I don’t have clear answers of understanding, unless A) the left system’s desktop has the manual placement of the desktop contents on the left (usually someone one would only see with Linux or maybe Windows); and B) those Docks are a bit sus if these are truly OS X/macOS environments, unless there’s a custom dock utility which departs from the usual Dock (which, if so, in OS X/macOS land, I’d be curious to learn more, or less implausibly, these are well-disguised Linux environments).
Ami I getting warmer?
Hi B S,
I think your description was almost spot on.
So it's Sorbet Leopard on my quad G5 on the left with the icons positioned on the left with finder's snap to grid option
and on the right it's Sierra on a core2duo macbook turned into a mac mini ;-)
To control both I'm using teleport from Sierra to G5.
The strange looking dock is the docklet from Butler ;-)
The black bar on Sorbet is courtesy of Nocturne's ( version 2.0 ) invert menu bar option and I´m also
using leopard rebirth.
Best regards,
voidRunner
I think your description was almost spot on.
So it's Sorbet Leopard on my quad G5 on the left with the icons positioned on the left with finder's snap to grid option
and on the right it's Sierra on a core2duo macbook turned into a mac mini ;-)
To control both I'm using teleport from Sierra to G5.
The strange looking dock is the docklet from Butler ;-)
The black bar on Sorbet is courtesy of Nocturne's ( version 2.0 ) invert menu bar option and I´m also
using leopard rebirth.
Best regards,
voidRunner
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Well, although I’m not a giant fan of Sorbet Leopard (I know, I know, I just let the cat out from the bag, and it’s no longer a secret), I’d say this is a really seamless implementation. Very well done.
It’s giving me ideas for a future setup, to have a headless PowerBook G4 DLSD and a headless MacBook Pro (or something along those lines) running seamlessly on one wide display, curved or flat (I’m not picky!).
How did you manage two, discrete video input sources on one physical display? That part has my attention piqued.
Some displays have a picture-by-picture feature so you can display two or more sources next to each other.
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Hi B S,
This AOC monitor I have has the possibility to display two of the inputs ( it has 4, 2DP and 2HDMI ) side by
side ( picture by picture as Amethyst said ) or PIP.
In mine you can also say which is the one on the left and the one on the right independent of the input source.
I then used switchresX to setup 1720x1440 display modes on both the G5 and the macbook, so display modes use
1:1 sizes.
Best regards,
voidRunner
This AOC monitor I have has the possibility to display two of the inputs ( it has 4, 2DP and 2HDMI ) side by
side ( picture by picture as Amethyst said ) or PIP.
In mine you can also say which is the one on the left and the one on the right independent of the input source.
I then used switchresX to setup 1720x1440 display modes on both the G5 and the macbook, so display modes use
1:1 sizes.
Best regards,
voidRunner
Well, drop my cake batter and make me a big pancake: that’s amazing.
Hi all,
And this is my WIP MAC Mini ;-)
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Best regards,
voidRunner
And this is my WIP MAC Mini ;-)
Best regards,
voidRunner
Hi Bug-Creator,
Yes only 50 50.
In PIP mode you can place the "second" screen in any corner of the monitor
and you have 3 sizes (small, medium and large ).
In PIP you can also switch between which is displayed large or "small"
Best regards,
voidRunner
Yes only 50 50.
In PIP mode you can place the "second" screen in any corner of the monitor
and you have 3 sizes (small, medium and large ).
In PIP you can also switch between which is displayed large or "small"
Best regards,
voidRunner
Just wanted to point out that Nocturne is unnecessary to achieve a black menu bar if you use a theme. I've had a black menu bar on my PowerPC Macs since around 2014. Further, this Mac (below) has an all black theme with the exception of Finder window backgrounds (which apparently was not technically possible to do at that time).
This involves Candybar and Magnifique. However, I'm not running Sorbet Leopard, just stock Leopard with found tweaks over time (some of which were used in Sorbet). As you're using Leopard Rebirth though, this would probably mess things up.
In any case, if you're interested (I still link to the download on Dropbox): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/black-mac-os-x.1709883/
No problem, and I totally understand why you'd be using Nocturne in that situation. I was just putting it back out there as it's a whole different group of people in here now than there was then and so on.
Anyway, this desktop is set, everything on it is set. I gave up most experimentation with it years ago. The only thing that ever changes it is a degradation of Geektool items and Yaho widgets (that moonphase icon is that last working Yahoo widget). So @Amethyst1 can't complain about me posting iterations of desktop wallpaper with this Mac.
My ancient Gateway monitor has PIP. Many years ago Id run a imacg3 running 9.2.2 in the PIP window via vga and a windows gaming box driving the larger monitor via DVI. surprisingly handy feature. I have never had a monitor that does SBS PIP though. That's pretty cool.