[mythtv-users] Unable to change default playback screen

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Oz,

Thursday, September 8, 2016, 5:56:18 PM, you wrote:

> 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

I very much doubt that it is a really tested configuration. And many
WMs even have limited or no real support for multi screen on one GPU.
It works but can give unsuspected results. So you first should check
the multi GPU support for your WM!



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