[mythtv-users] Change layout: screen edges

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:40 +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>> As MythTV appears to be designed for a computer monitor instead of for a
>> plain old TV I am looking for wasy to leave a few more pixels around the
>> edges of the menus so that e.g. the recordings screen does not have
>> texts starting at the leftmost, right at the edge of the screen.
>> Also other stuff is at the edges of the screens which does not look nice.
> 
> Go to "Utilities/Setup:Setup:Appearance" then on the second pane change
> the GUI width, height, X offset and Y offset to something that avoids
> overscan on your TV. i.e. shrink the width and height to be smaller
> than the resolution of your TV and increase the X and Y offset from
> the defaults of 0 and 0, resp, to something between 8 and 16.

Thanks for the tip but as a side effect of using these settings the top
and bottom menu bars of my Fedora desktop are not covered anymore by the
MythTV application.
How can I fix this?