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

Bobby Gill bobbygill at rogers.com
Tue Aug 19 23:53:26 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:24 AM, xavier hervy
<xavier.hervy at bluebottle.com>wrote:

> 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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Yer a doggone genius xavier! I checked the database values in mythweb
settings and saw XineramaMonitorAspectRatio was set at 1.6, or 16:10 and I
changed it to 1.4 (which after playing with many 1.x's) is 4:3, and it works
great! Thanks a bunch!

:)
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