| # this forces Arena into full screen mode on startup, set back to 3 to reset | |
| # note that if you go into the Arena "Graphics" preference panel, it will reset all of these | |
| # and you will need to run these commands again | |
| defaults write com.wizards.mtga "Screenmanager Fullscreen mode" -integer 0 | |
| defaults write com.wizards.mtga "Screenmanager Resolution Use Native" -integer 0 | |
| # you can also replace the long complicated integer bit with any other scaled 16:9 | |
| # resolution your system supports. | |
| # to find the scaled resolutions, go to System Preferences --> Display and then | |
| # divide the width by 16 and multiple by 9. on my personal system this ends up |
I have two user accounts set up on my mac. User drew I use for most things, but if I'm making a screencast I'll switch to the demo user. I know that the demo user has a clean desktop, and the font size is larger than usual in my terminal and text editors, making everything a bit more legible when capturing the screen. When I record a screencast as the demo user, I save the file to /Users/Shared/screencasts. As I understand it, the /Users/Shared directory is supposed to be accessible to all user accounts on the mac. If I created and saved a screenflow document as the demo user, I should be able to read and write that file when logged in as user drew.
That was the theory, but it didn't always work out that well in practice. I would occasionally find that a directory was only writable by one user or the other. Perhaps I'd open a screenflow document as user drew and attempt to export the video to the same directory, only to find that the directory was owned by demo, meaning that I couldn't cr