[mythtv-users] Full screen

[Raymond Wagner]

On 7/1/2013 7:27 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 30/06/13 23:15, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 30/06/13 22:30, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> On 6/30/2013 5:01 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
>>>> I mostly run the frontend in a window on my monitor, DISPLAY=:0.0
>>>>
>>>> This puts it onto the TV.  Fedora, 0.26-fixes, but it may still be
>>>> usable.
>>>>
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>> # Run MythTV front end on display 1
>>>> # For Panasonic TX-L32E5B HDMI1 via DVI-I adapter
>>>> # This is for use if Overscan is OFF
>>>> #
>>>> # It seems that that requires _both_
>>>> #  that the TV overscan is OFF
>>>> #  and that the TV aspect ratio is set to [16:9]
>>>> #  If aspect ratio is AUTO it seems that Overscan is ON
>>>> #
>>>> #
>>>> export DISPLAY=:0.1
>>>> mythfrontend --geometry 1920x1080+0+0
>>>
>>> Please do not do this. Run some sort of window manager. Mythbuntu
>>> defaults to Xfce. Lighter ones are things like fluxbox, e16, evilwm, or
>>> ratpoison. The lighter ones are only going to eat about a megabyte of
>>> memory, and nearly no CPU. There's no reason not to run it, and there
>>> are good reasons to run it.
>>
>> I'm not clear what's wrong.  I have kde on my monitor, running a
>> desktop, and this shifts mythfrontend to the tv. The two screens are
>> accessible at the same time.  I'd like a less clunky approach but in
>> general it does what I want.  I can see that there would be problems if
>> I had only the one screen, of course.
>>
>
> I'd like to pursue this a bit further.  My approach was based on stuff 
> found here:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Running_MythTV_Dual_Headed
>
> mainly the section headed:
>
> Using a Console Monitor and an HDTV Set
>
> although I have an alarming number of experimental versions of 
> xorg.conf that were tried along the way.
>
> I'm not clear if Raymond didn't like the use of DISPLAY, or if it's 
> the --geometry setting, but it gives me a full HD native-pixel display 
> on the TV or a windowed display on the monitor, with a simple switch 
> between the two.  However, I don't use a remote and I haven't 
> experimented much with recent bells and whistles.  I could post my 
> current xorg.conf if there's any interest - and I would certainly like 
> to learn of any more MythTV-compliant alternatives.

Manipulating the DISPLAY variable, or using the --geometry setting is 
fine.  It's just a bad idea to run a screen without a window manager.  
If KDE doesn't automatically take control over both screens, it's 
recommended to run something lightweight to manage the second screen.