[mythtv-users] Minimize frontend?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/01/2014 07:45 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 1:05:51 PM, you wrote:
>> On 07/01/2014 06:56 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> I can understand what you say about windowing and I agree very few
>>> would use that. But minimising is another thing, where you don't have
>>> to rebuild the screen. It would be handy on a not dedicated frontend.
>>> That way you can easy access your background etc. without switching to
>>> another VT.
>> But basically all (or, just plain all?) Window Managers have a mechanism
>> for minimizing any window--whether it has decorations or not.  Generally
>> there's some keystroke to hit.  I do it on my mythfrontend systems
>> whenever I need to do something non-MythTV (i.e. for maintenance).
> Not as far as I have found with evilwm.

Seems you're right--that one chooses not to allow the hiding/minimizing 
windows.

>   But on that one I don't need
> it. Do you know the key sequence in gnome2?

https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/input-keyboard.html.en#window-manager-navigation

says Alt-F9 is the standard.

> The idea to me would be to include it in the command list, so you can
> assign it in mythfrontend to a key or a remote button.

But wouldn't the fact that you're leaving mythfrontend (the "appliance 
UI") imply that you're going to need a keyboard, anyway?  If so, using 
the Window Manager's built-in functionality is just as easy (once you 
know it) and will work with any other application you bring up while 
mythfrontend is minimized.  Besides, if we did have some approach for it 
and the running Window Manager doesn't support minimizing windows (i.e. 
evilwm), there's a good chance it would Do Bad Things (i.e. there might 
be no way for the user to restore the window, or know the window is 
there, or ... so they may try to start a 2nd instance of 
mythfrontend--which won't work, and could get them very confused and 
make them think MythTV is broken or whatever).

Mike