[mythtv-users] screen stretching problems with running X on the PVR350

[korebantic]

Got it, thanks for the help!

--- "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:

> korebantic wrote:
> 
> >--- "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>korebantic wrote:
> >>
> >>>My screen in both the horizontal and vertical
> directions are stretched to far. When I log on as
> the mythtv user and run mythtv-setup, I can't really
> complete the setup because the next and previous
> buttons are off the screen, etc.
> >>>
> >>Set GUI Size (in Myth's frontend settings) to
> something smaller than your X screen size and set
> your X and Y offsets to about half the difference. 
> Use something like 704x464 as a
> >>starting point.
> >>
> >I'm new to mythTV, so could you spell it out a
> little
> >more for me =)
> >
> >Where do I configure this setting exactly? Will it
> be
> >necessary for me to have completed mythtv-setup
> first?
> >If so I'm in a bit of a catch-22 because I'm
> finding
> >it hard to navigate through setup with this
> problem.
> >  
> >
>  From the frontend GUI, go to
> Utilities/Setup|Setup|Appearance
> 
> GUI width (px)
> The width of the GUI.  Do not make the GUI wider
> than your actual screen 
> resolution.  Set to 0 to automatically scale to
> fullscreen.
> 
> GUI height (px)
> The height of the GUI.  Do not make the GUI taller
> than your actual 
> screen resolution.  Set to 0 to automatically scale
> to fullscreen.
> 
> GUI X offset
> The horizontal offset the GUI will be displayed at. 
> May only work if 
> run in a window.
> 
> GUI Y offset
> The vertical offset the GUI will be displayed at.
> 
> 
> Technically, you should run the mythtv-setup before
> running mythfrontend 
> (and, therefore, before mythfrontend's setup). 
> However, you can 
> probably start mythbackend, start mythfrontend, go
> to this menu to set 
> the GUI settings (noting that by default the focus
> is on the Next 
> button, so you can just press Return to "skip" a
> page).  Then, quit 
> mythfrontend, then shutdown mythbackend, then run
> mythtv-setup.
> 
> However, a better approach is to redisplay the
> backend config on a 
> monitor that's not constrained by the PVR-350's
> overscan.  I.e. 
> (assuming a machine called mythbox and a user called
> mythtv)
> 
> ssh -Y -l mythtv mythbox
> mythtv-setup
> 
> Make sure you use -Y and not -X (because you need a
> trusted X session).
> 
> Mike
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