[mythtv-users] Re: GUI Y-offset setting not honored when watching a show

[Michael J.Sherman]

>  On 4/17/05, Michael J. Sherman <msherman at dsbox.com> wrote:
> > I have to set my X- and Y-offsets to non-zero numbers to get the GUI
> > and TV image to line up right on my television set. I just upgraded 
> my
> > myth CVS, and noticed that now when I go into watch TV or a 
> recording,
> > the GUI Y-offset is not taken into account like it has been (so when 
> it
> > switches to xv). So, everything is shifted up too much. When I exit
> > out back to the GUI, it keeps it all shifted up and I have to exit 
> out
> > and come back in the frontend for it to reset the position.
>
> When you say non-zero, do you mean less than zero or just a little
> more than zero (e.g. 2)? Right before the .18 release, there were
> some GUI/player positioning issues with certain window managers. I
> believe that the ultimate solution was to reset the GUI/player windows
> to (0,0) if the current position was less than (3,3). The assumption
> being that this would address the strangeness in certain window
> managers, but not have an impact on anyone else. Perhaps that was
> wrong?
>
>

By non-zero I mean like 20, so it's not the few pixel issue of before, 
but perhaps the "fix" did mess up the normal functioning of the offset 
for larger values.

Can you point me to the source file that has this code in it?  I can 
take a look around.