[mythtv-users] Dual monitors, mythfrontend, aspect ratio

xavier hervy xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com
Mon Aug 18 15:24:40 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 03:12 -0400, Bobby Gill wrote:
> I use dual monitors on my desktop and depending on the situation will
> have mythfrontend playing on the left or right monitor (left is an LCD
> widescreen, right is a CRT 4:3). Now typically I was having to go into
> Setup > Appearance and on page 2 I can change the Xinerama screen to
> either 0 or 1 and the Monitor Aspect Ratio to 16:9, 16:10 or 4:3. If I
> wanted to watch stuff on the LCD, I'd go here and choose Xinerama
> screen 0 and aspect ratio 16:10. If I wanted it playing on the CRT, of
> course Xinerama screen 1 and ratio 4:3.
> 
> Now I'm wondering if it's possible to make a shortcut to do this. I
> use fluxbox and have shortcuts set up just fine to open mythfrontend
> on either screen:
> 
> "Mod4 R :ExecCommand mythfrontend -geometry 1920x1200+0+0" (opens on
> LCD)
> and
> "Mod4 T :ExecCommand mythfrontend -geometry 1600x1200+1920+0" (opens
> on CRT)
> 
> However, the aspect ratio is left to what I last set it, so if I hit
> Mod4 R to open it on the LCD but the aspect ratio I last set was 4:3,
> I still have to go back into Setup > Appearance, rendering the
> shortcut rather pointless.
> 
> Is there a way to set the aspect ratio of Setup > Appearance from
> command line with mythfrontend or even set some keybinding for it??
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Bob
> 
you probably can use --override-setting for mythfrontend to override the
aspect ratio. have look in mythweb or in the table settings to find the
name of the setting

> 



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