[mythtv-users] Re: OSD gone with CVS??

Jason Miller jasonmiller at micron.com
Thu Nov 6 12:29:08 EST 2003


On 06/11/03 09:33 -0600, Kirby Vandivort wrote:
> > > >>>I just upgraded to the current CVS from pre 0.12 CVS.  There are quite a 
> > > >>>few improvements but I don't seem to have any on screen displays.  I hit 
> > > >>>'i' during playback and nothing happens.  If I hit space during 
> > > >>>playback, nothing happens and no bookmark gets set.  If I hit 'z' it 
> > > >>>skips to the next cutpoint so it seems any action requiring an osd is 
> > > >>>dead.  I searched the archives and didn't see anything similar so I'm 
> > > >>>assuming I have something weird going on on my end.  Any suggestions.
> > > >
> > > >On 05/11/03 19:22 -0900, DanM wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>what theme?  IIRC some changes were made to the OSD which required an 
> > > >>updated theme.  See if it works with 'blue'.
> > > >>
> > > >>-dan
> > > >>
> > > >>jasonmiller at micron.com wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >I'm using the latest visor for 0.12 but I tried the blue and default, 
> > > >which I
> > > >think is blue, osd and none showed any osd at all.  I also switched to the
> > > >blue theme completely just on the off chance that did it and had the same
> > > >problem.
> > > 
> > > Make sure you're changing the 'OSDTheme' setting, which is separate from 
> > > the 'Theme' selection.  They're in 2 different parts of Setup.  I'm not 
> > > at my box right now, but IIRC the 'Theme' setting is in 
> > > Setup->Appearance, and the 'OSDTheme' is in 'Setup->TV Settings->General 
> > > (or Playback)'
> > > 
> > > -JAC
> > > 
> > 
> > Right, I did that.  I changed the overall theme and the osd theme just to
> > completely rule out Visor.  I tend to think it isn't the theme because space
> > doesn't create a bookmark either.  Is the "Position Saved" text that pops up
> > themable?  I did a clean checkout of CVS from last night, blew away
> > /usr/local/share/mythtv and completely reinstalled.  Still the same problem.
> > I'm at a loss.  And to top it off, I can't revert due to the changes in the
> > database :/  I could live without the OSD but I'm a slave to the bookmarks :)
> 
> I'm not at my box(es) right now, but I must say, when I read this thread
> yesterday I thought to myself, that sounds like a strange problem.  Then I
> updated my boxes to latest cvs (prior updates couldn't be more than 3 or
> 4 days prior).  All my machines are running latest gentoo.  My desktop
> (hereafter known as IndyHome) showed the OSDs fine.  But my xbox does not.
> Relevant lines from mysql show on primary line that looks to be the
> culprit..  ThemeQt is set to 1 on IndyHome and it is not set on xbox1.  I'm
> suspicious of that.  I'm not at home to test, however.  
> 
> | OSDTheme                  | blueosd    | IndyHome |
> | Theme                     | blue       | IndyHome |
> | RandomTheme               | 0          | IndyHome |
> | ThemeQt                   | 1          | IndyHome |
> | OSDThemeFontSizeType      | default    | IndyHome |
> | ThemeFontSizeType         | default    | IndyHome |
> | OSDTheme                  | blueosd    | xbox1    |
> | Theme                     | blue       | xbox1    |
> | RandomTheme               | 0          | xbox1    |
> | ThemeFontSizeType         | default    | xbox1    |
> | OSDThemeFontSizeType      | default    | xbox1    |
> 
> (Interestingly, ThemeQt doesn't appear anywhere in the cvs tree...  Hmm..
> maybe that's not the problem after all..  That row might be a holdover
> from sometime in the past.. *shrug*)
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kirby Vandivort                      Theoretical and 
> Senior Research Programmer            Computational Biophysics 
> Email: kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu          3051 Beckman Institute
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/    University of Illinois
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I'm running Gentoo as well and do have ThemeQt = 1 so that doesn't seem to be
a common thread.  I'll do some more significant digging this afternoon.  Any
direction on where to start would be appreciated :)


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