[mythtv-users] how do I bring myth frontend to the "top"?

[sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com]

Just like you mentioned kicking off "irexec" before mythfrontend, it 
needs to be done the same for "irxevent". I have it in my .xinitrc 
file as (without a window manager):

exec irxevent &
exec mythfrontend

The online documentation for it is:
http://www.lirc.org/html/irxevent.html

The past week, I've tried to get a dual display working for the third 
time, with the second display being the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350's TV-
out port... I was running into a situation, that when I would switch 
virtual consoles "irxevent" or mythfrontend's native IRC support would 
hang... sometimes permanently and sometimes until I would switch the 
virtual console back to mythfrontend... which makes using the computer 
for normal desktop stuff at the same time as navigating MythTV on the 
television impossible (the delights of multi-tasking). Point is, 
interesting that "irxevent" caveat... but it probably is something to 
do with mythfrontend being suspended somehow, and not with "irxevent".

----- Original Message -----
From: Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com>
Date: Monday, November 6, 2006 4:15 pm
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] how do I bring myth frontend to the "top"?
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>

> On Nov 6, 2006, at 4:08 PM, sschaefer1 at woh.rr.com wrote:
> 
> > Isn't "irexec" intended to execute an application?
> > I read the question as, how to I bring a currently running 
> application> to the foreground? (I've never done anything like 
> this, but I would
> > try something like...)
> >
> >  begin
> >  prog = irxevent
> >  button = WHATEVER
> >  repeat = 2
> >  config = Key alt-tab RootWindow
> >  end
> >
> > ... my idea here is, ALT-TAB should allow you to cycle between 
> all the
> > active windows, one by one. RootWindow would be your window 
manager,
> > presuming ALT-TAB is recognized in the window manager as such.
> 
> I wasn't aware of irxevent. I just always write tiny shell scripts 
> to  
> do stuff I want and use irexec.
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