[mythtv-users] Re: Myth menu navigation slow after using XMame in MythGame

[Robert S. Kerr]

  Quoting atd7 at cornell.edu:

 > What theme are you using?

I've been using G.A.N.T., but after the recent discussion on this 
thread, I tried using a smaller font.  It doesnt' seem to help.  I tried 
Blue also and didn't have any difference.

 > G.A.N.T. can have some serious problems on some systems, see my 
previous post on
 > this topic. If you're using G.A.N.T. and some letters have "cut off" 
portions
 > (In my case, the "g" in Watch Recordings and Delete Recordings was 
cut off at
 > the bottom), the symptoms you describe can occur.
 >
 > In my case, it occurred most of the time, but sometimes, for whatever 
reason, it
 > did not. The fact that it didn't always occur could be falsely 
correlated with
 > xmame in your case, or somehow xmame is causing X's font handling to 
become
 > weird (I find it highly unlikely though.)
 >

I'm quite certain that it is XMame, and I'm pretty sure I've narrowed it 
down to fullscreen Xv.  I haven't tried SDL yet to see if I can confirm 
XMame/Xv is the culprit. 

I've even gone so far as to get into the Mythgame code and comment out 
the calls to xmame so I could have Myth doing everything it normally 
does when it goes into mame and then comes back.  When I do that, the 
slowdown doesn't appear.  When I actually make the call and start up 
xmame, then I get the slowdowns.

The frustrating thing is that I haven't been able to reproduce this 
behavior outside of Myth.  I'm getting confident that it isn't anything 
in the Myth code per se, but more an interaction between XMame and 
something that Myth is using.  If I could reproduce the behavior outside 
Myth, I could rule Myth out and go ping the Xmame people on their lists.

Another piece of information is that once I've managed to get this slow 
behavior the only way to correct it is to restart my xserver (again 
pointing to it and not Myth).

 > If you're getting cutoff letters and slow menus with G.A.N.T., go into
 > theme.xml, and drop the fontsize for the buttons from 28 point Arial 
to 24
 > point. (Or whatever will stop the letters from being cut off.) It may 
likely
 > fix things.
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