[mythtv] Window focus problems (was: Using KDE Window Manager,
how to remove toolbars)
Brent Borghese
brent at bborghese.com
Sat Mar 1 16:53:26 EST 2003
I have the same focus problem with lirc.
I am using the CVS from Jan 18, and for about 3 weeks every thing worked
fine. But, about a week ago the focus problem came back.
I know it sounds hard to believe, but I have done nothing to the box and
the problem started up again.
Temporary, the way I have got around the problem is to have my remote run
xmessage and it would pop-up a window for a second and when the window
closes the focus go back to the list box in myth.
Here is what I have in my .lircrc file:
begin
prog = irexec
button = Help
config = xmessage -timeout 1 "Wait"
end
Make sure you have irexec running.
Brent
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 2/27/03, 2:01:52 AM, Michael "D." Cencula <mythtvuser at cencula.com> wrote
regarding [mythtv] Window focus problems (was: Using KDE Window Manager,
how to remove toolbars):
> I've done some more looking into this trying to understand the behavior
and
> here's what I've found. Mythtv works fine and there are no focus issues
when
> using the keyboard only. Using lirc, however, gives the following
results:
> Use remote to select "watch recordings" -> brings up the "Select a
recording
> to view" dialog.
> Use remote to select a recording and start watching it.
> Use remote to exit recording (irxevent sends an Escape to CurrentWindow).
> at this point, the "Select a recording to view" dialog is in front, but
it
> does not have the focus. This is evident by the column headings titled
> "Date" and "Title" are a subdued shade of blue...not the bright blue when
the
> window is focused. If I hit the up and down arrows on the keyboard, the
> selection bar will move from program to program...but the up and down
arrows
> on the remote do nothing. Also, if I hit alt-tab once, the application
> selector that pops up in the middle of the screen will highlight
> mythfrontend<2>, which is the "Select a recording to view" dialog. That
> tells me that the other window named mythfrontend was active until I hit
> alt-tab. When I release the alt-tab, the "Date" and "Title" column
headings
> become bright blue and the remote works in this dialog once more.
> Here's some speculation from a non-programmer:
> I've looked at the irxevent code and it seems to use some functions like
> XGetInputFocus() to find out what window to send the keypress characters
to.
> Since the MythTV menu window (Watch TV, Schedule a Recording, Watch
> Recordings, etc) has the same name as the "Select a recording to view"
dialog
> (they're both called mythfrontend), I wonder if lirc (irxevent, actually)
is
> selecting the wrong window to send the kepress characters to. If so,
could
> this problem be solved by changing the name of the "Select a recording to
> view" dialog?
> If I knew more about programming, I'd try to make some code changes to
test
> this theory out, but unfortunately I'm not that proficient.
> Let me know if I can do anything else to help track this down.
> Mike
> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:43, Michael D. Cencula wrote:
> > I've got this same problem in KDE 3.0 using the click to focus method.
> >
> > On Monday 24 February 2003 00:42, David Madsen wrote:
> > > Using focus policy 'Click to Focus'. AFAIK that is the correct method to
> > > use right?
> > >
> > > Dave Madsen
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Isaac Richards" <ijr at po.cwru.edu>
> > > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 2:59 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Using KDE Window Manager, how to remove
> > > toolbars
> > >
> > > > On Sunday 23 February 2003 02:23 pm, David Madsen wrote:
> > > > > Thats really strange.. I have this exact problem with KDE. ;) After
> > > > > watching a video, and exiting using the remote, the mythfrontend that
> > >
> > > lists
> > >
> > > > > all the shows is now longer in focus. What ver of KDE are you
> > > > > running? Maybe that might be the difference, since i'm running KDE
> > > > > 2.2 from the debian unstable release..
> > > >
> > > > Using what focus method?
> > > >
> > > > Isaac
> > > >
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