how to ensure 'windows' are maximized on opening

eurotrotter

hey gang

i have a 13' macbook

my eyes arent the best, and i want to maximize the size of everything by default, so when i open a folder, i want the folder to ocupy the full screen, without me having to resize it each time.

any ideas?

just one other question, i want to be able to use keybord shortcuts with vlc player, when playing music, but he keyboards shortcuts only seem to work with videos and not music

any ideas

thanks for ur patience

hope yer enjoying the sun today, unbeliebably beautiful today

thanks
ed

cornbb

There isn't truly such thing as "maximise" in Mac OS - the button referred to as "maximise" is an optimise button and whether or not it is used to make a window fill the screen is up to the developer of the software in question. In Finder's case, it doesn't make a Finder window fill the screen so there is no recognised maximised state for Finder.

However, your Finder preferences are stored in a type of file called a property list - this remembers the last location, size, contents, view mode etc of a window so they will be the same next time you open one. If you open Terminal (from Applications > Utilities), type in "defaults read com.apple.finder" you'll get a long list of all this information.

So theoretically it would be possible to write an Applescript or a bash script that would overwrite the relevant property every time a window is about to open (e.g. it would set "WindowSize" or whatever relevant property to 1600x1200 or whatever size you desire). It would be a bit of a hack job though.

Maybe it would be more useful for your eyes to simply resize the icons? In finder, press Apple-1 to display as icons, then ctrl-click a blank area of a finder window, click Show View Options and resize the icons there. You can adjust the text size too.

Sad Professor

Maximizing windows wouldn't make anything easier to see anyway. If you want to really make things bigger set a lower screen resolution in System Prefs > Displays.

drzhivago

eurotrotter wrote: »

hey gang

i have a 13' macbook

my eyes arent the best, and i want to maximize the size of everything by default, so when i open a folder, i want the folder to ocupy the full screen, without me having to resize it each time.

any ideas?

just one other question, i want to be able to use keybord shortcuts with vlc player, when playing music, but he keyboards shortcuts only seem to work with videos and not music

any ideas

thanks for ur patience

hope yer enjoying the sun today, unbeliebably beautiful today

thanks
ed

Enable universal access and learn the key combinations for magnifying parts of the screen

eurotrotter

drzhivago wrote: »

Enable universal access and learn the key combinations for magnifying parts of the screen

how do u enable this feature?

drzhivago

eurotrotter wrote: »

how do u enable this feature?

go to system preferences


Under system the last icon in that row is universal access, click that

Turn on zoom and remember the key combination to zoom in and out, best to put it on a post it note on the monitor until you remember

If you click the options under zoom it will ask how far you want to zoom, X2 should be enough for most people

Also click the bottom button show universal access in the menu bar as this will be a short cut if you want to modify