[mythtv-users] mplayer always in background after upgrade from 0.21 -> 0.23.

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 07/30/2010 09:42 PM, Brett Kosinski wrote:
> Well, this evening I finally decided to take the plunge and move to
> 0.23 (among other things, the changes to mythvideo sound rather
> interesting).  After spending much time hacking the Retro-wide theme
> port so it looks at least sorta similar to the original Retro theme
> from 0.21, I decided to try out mythvideo.  The upside is all the
> video content is still there, with what little metadata I had before
> still present.  The downside is that every time I start a video, which
> fires up mplayer (my preferred video player), mplayer gets shoved into
> the background and Myth's lovely blue background dominates the screen.
>   Alt-tabbing shows that mplayer is running just fine, just not on top
> (though full screen... go figure).
>
> This worked just fine with 0.21, so I'm curious if anyone knows if
> there's some configuration that needs to be changed to fix the
> behaviour.  And barring that, what kind of work around can I put in
> place to get this working again?  Again, this worked just fine before,
> so I don't believe it's a WM problem (I'm using fluxbox on the FE in
> question)...

It's a WM problem.  MythTV does not place Windows within X.  Window 
Managers do.

(And I'll bet you upgraded Fluxbox from 1.0 to 1.1 in the upgrade, too.)

On the bright side, the Internal player doesn't rely on Window Manager 
placement...  Maybe time to switch?  :)

Mike