[mythtv-users] is there a way to force mythfrontend to actually _obey_ -geometry?

Ronald Frazier ron at ronfrazier.net
Thu Jan 5 15:40:44 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Mark Kendall <mark.kendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using the mythtv-frontend-0.24.1-20111019.0.1.mga1 and
>> other packages supplied with Mageia 1 64-bit, I invoke
>> mythfrontend with -geometry 640x360-0+0.  The window
>> comes up correctly, the right size and in the upper
>> right-hand corner of the screen.  However, a second or
>> so later, it moves to the upper left-hand corner.  Is
>> there a -yes-actually-do-obey-geometry option or one
>> to that effect?
>
> Based upon your arguments, mythfrontend *should* be in the top left
> corner. Arguments 3 and 4 (which should be +X+Y) are offsets from that
> corner. The fact that it first appears in the top right will just be
> something related to your window manager.

Notice that he's NOT using +X+Y, but rather -X+Y. I think his thinking
is that -0 would mean zero pixels from the right edge. A lot of
window/gui systems use that sort of scheme. Whether or not myth does,
I have no idea, but I imagine that's what he's thinking it does


-- 
Ron Frazier


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