[mythtv-users] xwit and mythtv

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:13:07 +0800, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>I am trying to determine the best place to place the command
>
>/usr/bin/xwit -root -warp 1920 1080
>
>To get my mouse cursor moved into the very bottom right of the screen.
>Mythtv starts fine and the cursor is not visible. I have integrated
>Plex into my menu for playing non-recorded content Added to the main
>menu of mythtv. When Plex first launches, I can see the cursor. It
>does go away when I start navigating but it does half bug me that I
>can't fix this.
>
>Plex is launched via ~/.mythtv/mainmenu.xml with an entry like so:
>
>    <button>
>        <type>RECIPE</type>
>        <text>Plex</text>
>        <description>Start Plex</description>
>        <action>EXEC /usr/bin/plexhometheater.sh</action>
>    </button>
>
>I have added the xwit line to:
>
>1. The very start of /usr/bin/mythfrontend (link to
>../share/mythtv/mythfrontend.sh)
>2. Near the end of the same startup file just before the "until" loop
>3. At the beginning of the /usr/bin/plexhometheater.sh
>4. Startup for the window manager in Setting -> Settings Manager ->
>Session and Startup -> Application Autostart
>
>The only time it works is if I log into the host via ssh and run the
>command manually after performing an "export DISPLAY=:0.0"
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>Phil

I am just guessing, but it sounds like you need to have xwit run after
Plex is up and running.  One way to do that is to have your
plexhometheater.sh script start another script in parallel:

/usr/bin/do-xwit.sh &

and in the do-xwit.sh script, use a sleep command with enough delay
for Plex to be running, then run the xwit command.