[mythtv-users] Wayland support??

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sun Jul 18 17:01:56 UTC 2021


On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 09:11:50 -0400, you wrote:

>This may not be supported, but I'll describe what I'm testing and seeing.
>
>I'm testing the latest Archlinux with KDE Plasma DE.  By default it logs in
>with Wayland. It worked so I didn't choose the X11 option at login.  When I
>installed mythtv and ran mythfrontend I noticed that the entire mythtv
>screen was in the lower left corner and only occupying 1/4 of the screen.
>
>I'm hooked on a UHD 4K TV.  I have the DE scale factor set to 200%.  The PC
>is a ASRock IND NUC 1167G5 (11th gen Core i7 laptop CPU/GPU.
>
>When I change to X11 instead of Wayland I see what I normally expect.
>Mythfrontend filling the entire screen.
>
>This was the first install that I've done where I could even login with
>Wayland working so I thought I'd play with it, but for Mythfrontend I have
>to use X11 which isn't a big deal, just curious.
>
>Jim A

When I accidentally ran mythfrontend on Wayland (Fedora 33?  34?), I
found some log messages that said mythfrontend was using an API call
that Wayland did not support.  Switching to X11 fixed it, of course.


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