[mythtv-users] Setup menus too big for screen (PVR-350)

sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com
Thu Nov 18 14:36:47 UTC 2004


Dave,

Any chance you would share your .xinitrc?

Steve.

----- Original Message -----
From: David Erickson <erickson+mythtv at mddsg.com>
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:27 am
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Setup menus too big for screen (PVR-350)

> Brad,
> 
> I had a similar problem... I've heard people suggest to use 
> ratpoison as a
> window manager to avoid this problem.  My solution was to not use 
> a window
> manager at all.  I just put mythfrontend in my .xinitrc and do an 
> xinit. 
> I also played with the offsets a tiny bit. But the difference was 
> underKDE no matter what i did it didn't seem to change anything.  
> Once I just
> ran it naked under X, I was able to adjust it and make it look 
> perfect. 
> If you need anymore details i'll have to wait till I get home tonight
> after work.
> 
> Dave
> 
> > Okay, so I've had my myth system up for probably close to a year now
> > and I just can't seem to fix the one little problem.  TV and OSD
> > playback fit the screen perfectly, as do all of the menus.  However,
> > when I go into any of the frontent setup screens I can't see all of
> > the form elements.  The Back, Next, Finish buttons at the bottom of
> > the form are always off screen, as is the description of the 
> currently> highlighted element.  I've played around with the GUI 
> height/width,> GUI offsets, over/underscan and scan offset 
> settings repeatedly and
> > can't seem to make them fit any better.
> >
> > Up to now I've just been running the setup screens remotely from my
> > desktop when needed, but this is really starting to annoy me.  
> The 350
> > output is so nice except for this one little detail.  Anyone 
> have any
> > idea how to fix this?
> >
> > Brad
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