[mythtv-users] Window focus problem with KDE & clock offset glitch?

[Eni Gma]

grozio at buffalo.edu wrote:

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>Another problem I've been having is that my clock will jump ahead what 
>seems to be 10-20 seconds each day, so within the few weeks since I 
>have played with it last the clock has now advanced 4 minutes (which 
>is a problem when catching the end of shows as they are now getting 
>cut off).  The only reason I ever plug in a keyboard or have to 
>restart myth front end is when I go in and reconfigure the clock.  I 
>usually do this by changing to the TV guide channel and setting the 
>clock to that (which locks up mythfrontend, but I kinda expect that 
>because of the systems time changing).  This is why I need to restart 
>mythfrontend every few weeks.
>

Due to the inaccuracy of computer clocks, most network-connected 
machines use NTP to keep their clocks current.  You didn't provide any 
details about your Linux distribution, but it almost certainly has an 
NTP package (perhaps already installed), or you can compile from the 
source code at http://www.ntp.org/  

>
>However, tonight when I fixed the clock I am having the focus problem 
>again.  KDE's window focus settings are on "Click to focus".  Now I 
>lose focus when exiting a prerecorded show and when exiting livetv.  
>Basically at this point the remote is useless. I have reloaded 
>mythfrontend and irxevent several times and just messed around with 
>focus settings but I have not accomplished anything.  I don't know 
>what I can do to fix these problems.
>
>If anyone has any ideas to fix the focus problem or clock problem 
>please let me know. I am pretty new to linux so if you could simplify 
>an explaination that would be great.  Thanks for the help!
>
>-Derek
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