[mythtv-users] mythfrontend menu fade effects (was Re: "Whitescreen" on start in 0.27)

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Fri Jan 17 16:06:39 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Dave Ulrick <d-ulrick at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Sounds like maybe the OP should change his Paint Engine to Auto, and is
>> only seeing the white color of a blank window given to us by the system
>> because the Qt painter is slow?
>>
>> Paint engine
>> This selects what MythTV uses to draw. Choosing 'Auto' is recommended,
>> unless running on systems with broken OpenGL implementations (broken
>> hardware or drivers or windowing systems) where only Qt works.
>
>
> I see the whitescreen on my MythTV 0.27 front ends. I've chosen to use the
> Qt paint engine because the fade effects I see with menu transitions when
> the OpenGL engine is enabled aren't to my taste. Were it not for the fade
> effects I'd be happy to use OpenGL. Is there any way to disable the fade
> effects without having to resort to the Qt paint engine?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
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You'd have to edit the theme files and comment out the animation
sections. You probably want to edit menu-ui.xml

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythUI_Theme_Development#Animations

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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