[mythtv-users] Frontend problem

[Kevin Kuphal]

Tomas Roos wrote:

>Hello.
>
>I have a slight problem with my frontend.
>
>Everything works nice and so on. I have an EPIA-M10000 with the
>opensource drivers and everything works like a charm.
>
>My problem is:
>
>When I exit from mplayer or xine the MythTV window seem to get out of
>focus from not only the remote but also from the keyboard. Since I
>prefer not to have a mouse (or keyboard) attached to the computer (it
>is located in my livingroom)  I would like to get rid of this problem.
>If I click in the Myth window it seems to get focused again.
>
>It seems when mplayer or xine exits the MythTV frontend application
>does not seem to be "on top" anymore. Anyone else experienced this
>problem?
>
>I am no expert at X-windows. I am running wmaker as the window manager
>and Mandrake 10.1 as the distro.
>
>Anyone got any ideas?
>  
>
Try a different window manager.  I think people have had good luck with 
ratpoison.  I'm using fluxbox and don't have any of these issues.

Kevin