[mythtv-users] Dual Head MythTV

Chris Porter hoodlum7 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 17:58:51 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Mark Canup <markcanup at pobox.com> wrote:
> > I keep getting a virtual screen that extends across my desktop monitor
> and
> > my TV. However, my desktop monitor is 1400x1050 and my TV is 1360x768,
> so my
> > virtual screen ends up being 2760x1050 and part of the virtual screen has
> > nowhere to display. This means when I launch mythfrontend on the TV, the
> top
> > and bottom are missing since the TV isn't as tall as the desktop monitor.
>
> Launch it like this:
>
> mythfrontend -geometry 1360x768
>
> then it will fit your TV.
>
> Eric
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If you truly want your screens to be seperate then you need to turn off
Xinerama. Look for something like below and turn it to false if it is true.

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option "Xinerama" "true"

EndSection



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