I need to open Firefox on a Mac running Lion in Full Screen mode to act as a kiosk.
I was using the R-Kiosk 0.9.0 Firefox Add-on; but, it conflicts with a print javascript I am also running, so I can't use it.
Anyone know a way to accomplish this? either with an add-on or, perhaps, with AppleScript? Could an AppleScript be triggered to run when Firefox is opened?
This should do it:
activate application "Firefox"
delay 2
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Firefox"
click menu item "Full Screen" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
or maybe a keystroke:
activate application "Firefox"
delay 2
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}
end tell
Starting from version 71, you can open Firefox with the --kiosk parameter to open it in full screen.
Ex:
c:\"Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" --kiosk
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Is there a way in Applescript to control visibility of a Finder's window "tab-bar" (don't know the english name)?
I know Applescript can get/set statusbar and toolbar visibility, but found nothing of this "tab-bar", the one that let you have multiple tabbed windows).
This AppleScript code works for me using the latest version of macOS Mojave.
tell application "Finder"
activate
delay 0.1
if not (exists of window 1) then reveal desktop
delay 0.1
tell its window 1
activate
repeat until visible
delay 0.5
end repeat
delay 1
tell application "System Events" to key code 17 using {command down, shift down}
end tell
end tell
SIDE-NOTE: This code will not work if your Finder window 1(Frontmost Finder Window) is open with more than one tab already opened
I'm trying to program Alfred to open my Terminal, Sublime Text, and Chrome with a workflow.
I would like for my terminal to open normally as a window, but I've been trying to get Chrome and Sublime to open full screen.
I was able to get Chrome to open up in full screen mode with:
on alfred_script(q)
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell window 1 to enter presentation mode
end tell
end alfred_script
However, this did not translate to work with my Sublime Text.
What am I missing here?
Another way to do this assuming you have not changed the default keyboard shortcut for "Enter Full Screen" is simply to have System Events invoke that shortcut (⌃⌘F). As with the other approach I've seen to doing this (changing the value of AXFullScreen—see mklement0's answer here for a thorough discussion of this method), this requires making the relevant window active.
For instance, to toggle the full-screen state of the frontmost window in Safari, run:
tell application "Safari" to activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using {command down, control down}
end tell
As found here (i need an applescript to open safari in full screen an to hide the toolbar on mavericks). The make new document line prevents the can't get window 1 error by opening a new tab if one has not previously been opened.
tell application "Safari"
make new document
activate
delay 3
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Safari"
set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of window 1 to true
end tell
end tell
Basically my goal is to code a key command (option-s) to activate Stickies and create a new note. Right now I have an Alfred 2 generated Automation which links the hot key to the following script:
on alfred_script(q)
tell application "Stickies" to activate
delay .2
tell application "Stickies" to activate
delay .01
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "n" using command down
end tell
end alfred_script
The two activate commands are my attempt to deal with a bug where it opens the application, but doesn't bring it to front. It works seamlessly when the application is open in the background, but it's slow and creates a screen flash when the application isn't already running. The delay is not coming from the application itself because I can open the application and hit command-n as fast as possible, and it always works.
(By the way if you have an idea for how I could hide all other notes and just show the new one, that would be awesome!)
Try this:
launch application "Stickies"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Stickies"
click menu item "New Note" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
set frontmost to true
end tell
If you run the script by pressing option-s, there might not be enough time to release option before keystroke "n" using command down.
Or this doesn't raise the windows for other notes:
launch application "Stickies"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Stickies"
click menu item "New Note" of menu "File" of menu bar 1
end tell
do shell script "open -a Stickies"
activate app "Appname" and set frontmost of "Appname" to true raise all windows, but do shell script "open -a Appname" raises only one window.
Hotkeys also have a short delay by default in Alfred, but you can reduce it by changing the trigger behavior:
You could try this alternate way, might have a different effect.
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Stickies"
set frontmost to true
keystroke "n" using command down
keystroke "Hello World" & linefeed & "I'm a new note!"
end tell
end tell
Hiding all other notes, i'd say start a new question for that.
I've searched high and low to find a solution for this but have come up trumps.
I have a simple Applescript to wait for a minute, before opening a browser in fullscreen mode. (Allowing MAMP to startup as well).
The problem I face is, "Finder" has focus, and when the Applescript goes to execute the fullscreen command 'keystroke f {command down, shift down} it opens the "All Files" dialog, rather than the desired, Browser focused, enter fullscreen.
Does anyone know how to get around this please?
Couldn't you also activate the target application before entering full screen?
delay 10
tell application "Safari"
activate
reopen
end
tell application "System Events" to tell window 1 of process "Safari"
perform action "AXPress" of (button 1 where subrole is "AXFullScreenButton")
end tell
keystroke tab using {command down}
delay 1
keystroke "f" using {command down, shift down}
This works in my instance as the Finder had focus, and the next open application was my browser, which was the one I wanted to have focus. So if I were to do this manually I would hold COMMAND and press TAB once, to get the focus of the 'next app'
I'm not sure that the delay is required, but I added a 1 second delay just to make sure that the browser had focus, and then I execute the keystrokes to invoke fullscreen mode!
How can I tell Chrome or Firefox to reload the document in the top window? Here's what I'm using for Safari:
osascript -e '
tell application "Safari"
activate
do JavaScript "history.go(0)" in document 1
end tell
'
Here's the code for Chrome:
tell application "Google Chrome"
tell the active tab of its first window
reload
end tell
end tell
Or more concisely:
tell application "Google Chrome" to tell the active tab of its first window
reload
end tell
I do not think Firefox or Chrome have special Applescript support, but you can send the keystrokes (Cmd-R) to refresh the page:
tell application "Firefox"
activate
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "r" using command down
end tell
Here's another way to do it in Safari without using JavaScript:
tell application "Safari"
tell its first document
set its URL to (get its URL)
end tell
end tell
Automator
Open Automator and choose a New Document
Choose Service
Set Service receives to no input
Choose Run AppleScript action from the action list.
Paste the following code in the script:
tell application "Google Chrome" to tell the active tab of its first window
reload
end tell
Save the the service, for example, using the name Chrome Refresh
System Preferences
Open System Preferences > Keyboard
In the Shortcuts tab, choose Services
Assign a new shortcut
The following answers above work well but using them result in DevTools refreshing in a new tab if it was the last tab/window in focus. I don't want DevTools to refresh in a new tab, I just want the first tab to refresh regardless of last focus/active and this worked well for me. Leaving for someone searching for this use case as well.
tell application "Google Chrome"
activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Google Chrome"
keystroke "r" using {command down, shift down}
end tell
end tell
end tell