<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 7/24/07, Peter A. Jones <peter_alan_jones@yahoo.com> wrote:<br><div>><br>> Long time lurker first time poster... and a little noobish. I've googled,<br>> looked through the wikis and mailing list archives, etc, but I still<br>> wouldn't be surprised if this is a RTFM problem so sorry in advance.<br>><br>> I'm on the home stretch (fingers crossed) of my first Myth install but have<br>> run into a problem with the way myth FE is displaying. When I initially<br>> installed Myth (standard install following the Feisty community guide) the<br>> FE was displayed as you'd expect, at full screen, and working
fine. I<br>> wrestled with tuning and channel setup for a while and spent a while just<br>> looking through the pages and pages of FE settings, and at some point the FE<br>> went from showing at fullscreen to showing at a much lower resolution -<br>> maybe around 640x480 pix - overlaying the top left corner of the desktop<br>> (the Ubuntu menu bar is still visible above it, though). I restarted the<br>> FE, rebooted, etc. No dice.<br>><br>> It's looks kind of like a window, but has no border or handles. I can still<br>> control it with the keyboard when it has focus, and it appears to work,<br>> though playback shows black screen for video (this was working before).<br>> I've been through the frontend settings and can't find any settings awry<br>> AFAIK.<br>><br>> Also of note: I've got an FX5200 running nvidia-glx with two potential<br>> monitors: VGA to an LCD
that I am using to set up, and DVI to a Sony HDTV<br>> that I have just messed with a little bit. I had both running (TwinView)<br>> for a while but disabled the TV and now only the LCD shows in the<br>> nvidia-settings GUI, as you'd expect. Is it possible that the FE is sizing<br>> itself for the HDTV screen but displays on the LCD somehow? (I'm not sure<br>> what resolution I last set the TV to but it could have been something<br>> small...)<br>><br>> Any pointers?<br>><br>> Could this be an xorg.conf problem?<br>><br>> Would any more info be useful? (Again, I'm pretty noobish so you might have<br>> to tell me where to find stuff ...)<br>><br>> Thanks in advance - I can't wait to show the wife this thing working!<br>> Pete J<br>><br><br>>Are you running a window manager? Also, are you running<br>>Beryl/Composite? These are both
things that have been know to affect<br>>fullscreen. You should run a window manager and avoid<br>>Beryl/Composite.<br><br>I'm using Gnome, and no Beryl/Composite - standard issue Feisty setup. Thanks for the reply, Matt.<br><br>Also, thanks Bill - I am 99 percent sure that "Run Frontend in a Window" is not checked. I'll look again tonight, though (I've make sillier mistakes in my life). As an aside, if you do run it in a window does it have the normal handles and whatnot? Mine is borderless and pinned to the top left of the desktop.) I should really post a screen cap tonight...<br><br>Pete<br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>