[mythtv-users] screen position w/ pvr350

[Niklas Brunlid]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 10:18:18 -0400, Joseph A. Caputo  
<jcaputo1 at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 15:52, Jason Preston wrote:
>> I'm having a problem within myth actually repositioning the programs
>> window.  I have almost everything all set up, and at first it was way
>> overscanned, so i went into settings->appearance, two screens in
>> where you can adjust screen size, and location.  well it lets me
>> adjust screen size, so that i can find one that fits my screen
>> better, but when i mess with the x and y coordinates so that it will
>> move the window, it does nothing.
>
> AFAIK, those X/Y coordinates affect the offset of the contents of the
> window, not the placement of the window itself.  Myth does not have any
> built-in capability to affect the placement of its window if you're not
> running full-screen.

On my MythTV 0.14 box (Gentoo, KDE) the window itself definately moves.  
Like someone else said in this thread, you have to select "run in window"  
or something similar in the setup (TV/general, I think).

Personally I think it would be much better if Myth was always fullscreen  
and instead scaled/moved its contents - except the background - to the  
offset/size setting, but I'd imagine that would make it hard to do themes  
that rely on proper background/image alignment...

Running in a moved/resized window leaves me with two choices; either have  
a visible window edge, or lose some of the UI off-screen. Both work, but  
are just that teeny bit away from being absolutely perfect. =)

> However, I think I am familiar with the problem you are trying to
> describe.  Whenever I run Myth in a window on my workstation (my main
> frontend runs full-screen on my TV, but I sometimes test on my
> desktop), the window initially comes up in a reasonable location, but
> then Myth seems to always want to warp the window to (0,0) (top/left).
> It does this in such a way that the window contents start at (0,0) and
> the title bar is off the top of the screen.  It's annoying, but I've
> never really looked into it since I rarely run Myth on my desktop.

My window (on my combined backend/frontend) does the opposite - KDE puts  
it at (0,0) and MythTV moves it to (offsetX/offsetY).

-- 
Niklas