[mythtv-users] Change layout: screen edges

[Matt Rude]

Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:40 +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>     
>>> As MythTV appears to be designed for a computer monitor instead of for a
>>> plain old TV I am looking for wasy to leave a few more pixels around the
>>> edges of the menus so that e.g. the recordings screen does not have
>>> texts starting at the leftmost, right at the edge of the screen.
>>> Also other stuff is at the edges of the screens which does not look nice.
>>>       
>> Go to "Utilities/Setup:Setup:Appearance" then on the second pane change
>> the GUI width, height, X offset and Y offset to something that avoids
>> overscan on your TV. i.e. shrink the width and height to be smaller
>> than the resolution of your TV and increase the X and Y offset from
>> the defaults of 0 and 0, resp, to something between 8 and 16.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the tip but as a side effect of using these settings the top
> and bottom menu bars of my Fedora desktop are not covered anymore by the
> MythTV application.
> How can I fix this?
>   
I always change my Background to "Black" and hide my task bar.
that way I dont see anything but the frontend.
-Matt