[mythtv-users] Full screen

[Bob Long]

Daryl McDonald wrote,

> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com
> <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 7/1/2013 12:27 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
> 
>         Does Legacy full screen support not cooperate with a 64 bit OS?
>         CompizConfig sounded like the kind of fix I was looking for.
> 
> 
>     "Legacy" means "when applications drew directly to the screen".
>     That's as compared to when using Compiz, where applications draw to
>     an OpenGL framebuffer, and Compiz subsequently does whatever it
>     pleases with that framebuffer, unless the application is specially
>     programmed to force it otherwise.
> 
> 
> I guess I didn't make myself clear, as directed earlier in the thread I
> went to the software center and installed CompizConfig, and then 1)
> Under CompizConfig Settings Manager, go to "Utility"
> 2) Go to "Work arounds"
> 3) Check "Legacy Full Screen" support.
> which was supposed to allow playback without the unity interface. Any
> idea why I still have unity displayed?

I've not really been following this, but that CompizConfig setting works
for me running Ubuntu+Cinnamon (the panel does not appear) (I know you
are running Unity).

-- 
Bob Long