[mythtv-users] Several Problems with my WinTV PVR 250 MythTV Box

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Saturday 31 May 2003 08:42 pm, Robert Schultz wrote:
> Robert Schultz wrote:
> Okay, cool stuff.
> I export my display, and run Eterm &
> That gives me an Eterm window no my TV.
> I move my mouse over to it and start Mythfrontend there!
> And everything works great, as long as I keep 'focus' on that window on
> that screen.
>
> So all I have to do now is figure out how to redirect irxevent signals
> to a specific window!
> And .lircrc files have that capabilit built in (to both window name and
> window ID).
> Once I figure out how that works, it should be all set.

Myth is (currently) heavily dependent on focus.  It processes input via X 
keyboard events, which only get sent to the window with keyboard focus.  It 
may help to make sure your window manager is set up with a "Click To Focus" 
policy rather than a "Focus Follow Mouse" policy.  And yes, irxevent can send 
events to specific windows, but there are many different windows in Myth and 
you'd have no way of knowing which one was the "current" one.  Basically, 
Myth will not respond to any keys (whether from the keyboard or irxevent) if 
it doesn't have keyboard focus, period.

-JAC