<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Raymond Wagner <<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 10/3/2010 16:03, James Crow wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Raymond Wagner<<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 10/3/2010 15:23, Matt Emmott wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Is there an easy way to start mythfrontend on my secondary display and<br>
>>>> have it inherit the screen's resolution?<br>
>>><br>
>>> You can force a resolution and location at boot with '-geometry<br>
>>> WWWxHHH+X+Y'<br>
>><br>
>> I start myhtfrontend on my secondary display. My system is setup for<br>
>> TwinView. My primary display is :0.0 and my secondary display is :0.1.<br>
>> When I start mythfrontend I pass it the option of '-display :0.1'.<br>
><br>
> You are running two independent screens on your X server. On such a setup,<br>
> you cannot drag windows from one screen to another as described by the OP.<br>
<br>
</div>In which case the -geometry setting would be the logical one to use.<br>
<br>
drag it to where you want it and then use xwininfo to get the<br>
co-ordinates to put into -geometry.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Thanks, you guys rule. I dragged the window and xwininfo gave me:<br><br> xwininfo: Window id: 0x28009c6 (has no name)<br><br> Absolute upper-left X: 1680<br>
Absolute upper-left Y: 1<br> Relative upper-left X: 1680<br> Relative upper-left Y: 1<br> Width: 1282<br> Height: 1054<br> Depth: 0<br> Visual: 0x21<br> Visual Class: TrueColor<br> Border width: 0<br> Class: InputOnly<br>
Colormap: 0x0 (not installed)<br> Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity<br> Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity<br> Backing Store State: NotUseful<br> Save Under State: no<br> Map State: IsViewable<br> Override Redirect State: yes<br>
Corners: +1680+1 --2+1 --2--5 +1680--5<br> -geometry 1282x1054--2+1<br><br><br>And after a little trial and error I was able to start fullscreen on my second display with the following: <br><br>mythfrontend -geometry 1280x1024+1680+1<br>
<br>There seem to be some weird horizontal effects when there's a lot of motion on the display, but I'm ok with it for now. Maybe after .24 comes out I'll take a closer look. Thanks for the help!<br><br></div>
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