[mythtv-users] MythTV as a windowed app?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 22:19:14 UTC 2006


On 7/29/06, Chad Jannusch <bgmncwj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>    My question is how can I best configure Myth-0.19 to not have this
> problem?
>
>    One thought I had was to be able to run Myth as a truly windowed
> app. I've never run in anything except full screen mode. If this is
> possible then I'd like to understand how to run Myth in a window of
> 800x600 while the screen is at 1280x1024.
>
>    Maybe there are other ways folks have discovered to make this more
> efficient?
<SNIP>
>
>
> Hello,
> I'm not sure if this is the "official" way or not, but something like
> "mythfrontend --geometry 800x600" will work.
>
> --Chad

Chad,
   GREAT suggestion! Thanks!

   By itself it wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but I went into
setup and chose the 'Run Myth frontend as a window" and the two
togther are exactly right.

   Thanks!

Mark


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