[mythtv-users] Remote w/ dual-headed MythTV?

Jason Lowdermilk lowdermilk at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 1 13:06:06 EDT 2003


I'm using 0.91. The menus work perfectly with the remote, the problem is
when I enter one of the modules such as MythWeather. In that case, events
should start being sent to the window called "mythweather" instead of
"mythfrontend". So, I could see having separate .lircrc files for each
module, each targeting the correct window for that module, and then
having the frontent restart lircd with the appropriate config file each
time a module is entered, etc. But this just seems like a kludge.

Jason

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 01:55:43PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Jason Lowdermilk
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:07 PM
> > To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Remote w/ dual-headed MythTV?
> >
> >
> > Has anyone come up with an elegant solution for using a remote with
> > MythTV in a dual-headed environment?  I'm running MythTV on one head
> > (the TV) while displaying a desktop on another head (the monitor), and
> > for the most part it works fine.
> >
> > The main problem is this: once I bring up Myth on the TV and switch back
> > to the desktop, the remote control stops working because Myth no longer
> > has focus. However, if I edit my .lircrc and change "CurrentWindow" to
> > "mythfrontend" everywhere, then I can navigate around Myth using the
> > remote while the desktop has focus. But, once I enter one of the myth
> > modules such as MythWeather or start watching TV, then mythfrontend is
> > no longer the "right" window to send events to, and the remote stops
> > working again.
> >
> > I can envision a kludgy solution involving different .lircrc files for
> > each module and having the frontend restart lircd with a different config
> > file as each module is entered/exited, but surely there's a more elegant
> > way... any thoughts?
> 
> What version of Myth are you running?  The latest CVS version has reworked
> the Myth window hierarchy so that everything is contained in a single
> window, which would probably work with the setup you described above
> ('mythfrontend' instead of 'CurrentWindow').  I can't remember if this was
> introduced in 0.9 or later (I think later, so that would mean it's only in
> CVS).  If you have qualms about using the CVS version, Isaac has promised
> 0.10 very soon (possibly this week).
> 
> -JAC
> 
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