[mythtv-users] Keyboard-shortcut to change display?

Sven Bretfeld sven.bretfeld at gmx.ch
Thu Oct 7 16:55:15 UTC 2010


Hi Dan

Dan Wilga <mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> writes:

> Another suggestion: I used to have two separate instances of X
> running, one on each display device, each running its own instance of
> MFE. That worked quite well, especially considering that one of the
> output devices was a PVR-350. You could even have two versions of the
> settings file, which would use a different client name, thereby having
> separate settings in the database for the two instances.
>
> If you did this, there would be no need to change display settings,
> since both displays would always be active. Granted, this approach
> takes a lot more RAM.

Thanks for the suggestion. Hm, that's not a possibility for me. Because
then I will lose all of the comforts of an X-server spanning both
displays, including shifting windows from one to the other. And that's
exactly what I want to be able to with Mythtv.

Greetings,

Sven


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