Option to Disable Overlay

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I think it would be nice to have an option to disable the overlay (seek window 
and titlebar). A defaults write like Quicktime X has would be nice.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eight.bi...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2010 at 1:33

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sorry that I do not quite understand this request very well,
do you mean 
the window has the traditional title bar and the play control is outside of the 
movie frame?

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 1 Oct 2010 at 12:58

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Oh, no. I would like an option so that even when you move the mouse, the 
titlebar and play control never appear. So you have a clean window with only 
the movie. Quicktime X can do this with the terminal line "defaults write 
com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX MGUIVisibilityNeverAutoshow 1", so I was hoping for 
something similar. 

Original comment by eight.bi...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2010 at 10:17

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Original comment by zongyao.qu on 21 Oct 2010 at 4:27

• Changed state: Confirmed
• Added labels: Milestone-1.0.1, Priority-Low, Type-Feature
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium, Type-Defect

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Issue 182 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 1 Nov 2010 at 9:51

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One thing concerned.

If all the overlay are disabled, there is no way, BY MOUSE, to zoom, close, 
minimize the player window, but by keyboard short-cut or menu bar, this may 
confuse the user...

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 1 Nov 2010 at 9:53

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What if it was a simple option in the preferences? Something like "Disable 
overlays."

Original comment by matthew.marney on 1 Nov 2010 at 3:19

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I agree, it should certainly be an option. Maybe you could label the option as 
"Disable Overlays (Using Keyboard Shortcuts instead)" or perhaps make a note 
that it is for advanced users. 

Original comment by eight.bi...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2010 at 8:20

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Perhaps make this a option a "feature" in window menu and when enabled player 
goes into keyboard mode and losses all overlays and becomes always on top 
window or floating window or whatever you want to call it :)

Also in this mode it should be four corner resizable. No black bars should be 
visible (window should be constrained to video).

Original comment by slider2k1@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2010 at 8:12

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I think not to expose this feature is better, since window with a title bar is 
a standard behavior in the whole system, and I thought there are same reasons 
for QTX not to open this feature.

Not everyone is familiar wit menu bar and key short cut.
so "How to close/minimize/zoom the window???" may arise up, if it is exposed.

For someone who really wants to do it, 
"defaults write org.niltsh.MPlayerX HideTitlebar ___" will do the job.

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 11 Nov 2010 at 6:57

• Changed state: Fixed

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I tried the aforementioned command line entry with TRUE as the parameter and it 
still shows ups. What exactly do I need to put in the Terminal to disable these 
overlays?

Original comment by matthew.marney on 11 Nov 2010 at 7:37

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Hide:
defaults write org.niltsh.MPlayerX HideTitlebar 1

Show:
defaults write org.niltsh.MPlayerX HideTitlebar 0

I must be too sleepy to write the ___ , I even forgot why I wrote that.

Now it only works with title bar, player control will always shows up.

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 12 Nov 2010 at 12:40

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Thanks. WOuld be cool if it did both :)

Original comment by matthew.marney on 12 Nov 2010 at 12:43

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So, I did this, and it doesn't work for me :(

Original comment by matthew.marney on 13 Nov 2010 at 7:40

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which version? and how did you do this?

I could do it in my Mac.

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 13 Nov 2010 at 3:03

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MPlayerX 1.0.0 (r893). I opened Terminal.app, issues the command defaults write 
org.niltsh.MPlayerX HideTitlebar 1 and opened MPlayerX and the overlays were 
still there.

Original comment by matthew.marney on 13 Nov 2010 at 11:43

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Sorry, this feature is available from r962

Original comment by zongyao.qu on 14 Nov 2010 at 2:39

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Is there a way to start using the latest developmental version?

Original comment by matthew.marney on 14 Nov 2010 at 6:41