[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #9571: MythBuntu theme problem

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/12/2011 06:23 PM, John.Veness wrote:
> On 12/02/11 23:09, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Are you running with Mythbuntu theme in a 4:3 display (as is shown in
>> your screenshots)?  If so, it is expected that text items will not line
>> up properly.  That they seemed to be closer to correct before was only
>> "lucky happenstance."  :)  When a 16:9 theme is displayed at 16:9, text
>> should generally fit properly (assuming no bugs in the theme)--with the
>> exception being some "multiline" text areas (since we don't have
>> multiline support, yet).
> Although the screenshots look 4:3, my screen is physically 16:9. The
> screen is a widescreen CRT and I connect to it via a VGA->SCART adapter.
> I am outputting a 720x576 pixel resolution, which I guess would normally
> be 4:3 (and which is why I guess the screenshots look like that), but
> the circuitry in the TV widens the picture to fill the 16:9 screen. If I
> had taken the screenshots with a camera rather than using "scrot", you
> would have seen how they really look to me.
>
> Why 720x576? I chose it because it is the "native" resolution for PAL
> DVDs and PAL DVB-T broadcasts (including 16:9 DVDs and broadcasts), and
> I didn't want to tax the hardware/software by making it do any scaling.
> I realise that I can have a different resolution for the GUI and
> playback, but wanted to keep things simple.
>
> Most things in the GUI and when playing back recordings look correct -
> e.g. circular things look circular, so I'm pretty sure I have things
> configured correctly, but I just have this problem with (some) text now
> being truncated earlier than the width of the space it can fit into.
> Still, if it turns out I do not have things configured correctly, then
> feel free to bump me to mythtv-users, as this isn't really a development
> discussion I'm sure.

Did you configure X appropriately, with a 16:9 DisplaySize?  
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Display_Size

Please confirm with:

xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution

and verify that the millimeters measures are a 16:9 aspect.

Just want to verify a few likely issues before going farther.

Thanks,
Mike