[mythtv-users] Changing window focus with a remote

Dan Wilga mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu
Wed Sep 20 14:30:50 UTC 2006


At 4:06 PM +0800 9/20/06, Justin Smith wrote:
>I have MythTv 0.19 (FE + BE) installed on a Ubuntu Dapper box and 
>everything works well, except that I'd like to set up a button on 
>the remote that sets the window manager focus to the frontend.

Rather than using Alt-tab, which might give focus to the wrong app, 
try using wmctrl:

   wmctrl -a mythfrontend

If there's not an rpm for Ubuntu, you can get the source from:

   http://sweb.cz/tripie/utils/wmctrl/
-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."


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