[mythtv-users] Unable to change default playback screen

Oz Dror odror7 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 15:56:18 UTC 2016


Even If I start mythfrontend in one display. The playback is in a different
display.
The issue started when I added a second GPU + monitor. I am wandering if
the second GPU "confused" mythtv. Is this a bug?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com>
wrote:

> On 08/09/16 03:44, Oz Dror wrote:
>
>> My Display is compiled with Xinerama support. The problem started when I
>> added additional nvidia card with its own monitor.
>>
>>
> The database setting is "XineramaScreen" but it will only be used if
> Xinerama is active.
>
> You can't change the "playback screen" - it uses the same screen that the
> Ui/frontend uses.
>
> Sounds like your default display has changed.
> Can you not just start the frontend on the desired card/display using:
>
> mythfrontend -display=<display>
>
> or by setting your DISPLAY environment variable ?
>
> Examine your available displays using:
>
> xrandr --query
>
>
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