[mythtv-users] remote display from frontend

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Eric,

Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 5:03:40 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you mean you type in your different size every time you need it? ;-(

> No.  I use fvwm as my window manager and have this in my .fvwm2rc:


> AddToMenu "Mythtv-Popup" "Mythtv" Title
> +               "tiny" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 320x240 &
> +               "tiny-wide" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 320x180 &
> +               "small" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 640x480 &
> +               "small-wide" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 640x360 &
> +               "normal" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 800x600 &
> +               "normal-wide" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 800x450 &
> +               "large" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 1024x768 &
> +               "large-wide" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 1024x576 &
> +               "720" Exec mythfrontend --geometry 1280x720 &
> +               "full" Exec mythfrontend &

> I need to add a 1080 option.  My menu is a bit out of date.

>> I would create scripts for every case I use and what I meant is that as
>> I understand you can push those changes while the frontend is running
>> and that it then would adjust, in stead of quitting and starting with
>> the other options. But again I can be wrong.

> That's the other thing.  It seems to bake in an assumption that
> there's only one frontend process running on any given host.  That's a
> bad assumption.

> Eric
> _______________________________________________

Yes you have to do a pgrep and possible pkill. That's why I like more
to script and then create menuitems or icons pointing to them. You
have more then 1 line. You could even add a test on your current
resolution. etc, etc, etc...




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