<span style="font-size:13px; line-height:1.6em">On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 14:40 CEST, Paul Gardiner <lists@glidos.net> wrote:</span><br /> <blockquote>On 20/08/2013 13:24, Marius Schrecker wrote:<br />><br />> On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 13:57 CEST, Jean-Yves Avenard<br />> wrote:<br />><br />> On 20 August 2013 17:19, Marius Schrecker wrote:<br />> > Hi again,<br />> ><br />> > I just upgraded my TV from a 720p to a 1080p model (great to<br />> finally have<br />> > refresh rates that match framerates), but after changing the screen<br />> > resolution in setup -> appearance, the frontend only covers half<br />> the screen<br />> > on initial startup (after booting the machine) - attachment. If I run<br />> > through the appearance setup pages again (without changing<br />> anything, the<br />> > frontend resizes to cover the whole screen). Exiting and restarting<br />> > mythfronte
nd behaves as expected. I didn't have time to capture<br />> the logs<br />> > this morning, but can try to do it this evening, unless anyone<br />> already knows<br />> > the answer.<br />> Did you change the resolution on the first page of the Appearance<br />> settings in Setup -> A ppearance?<br />><br />> And if you have the "“Separate video modes for GUI and TV playback”<br />> check, make sure the resolution is properly set there too.<br />> _______________________________________________<br />><br />><br />> Hi and thanks Jean-Yves,<br />><br />> Yes, I did that the first time I connected up the new TV. Everything<br />> there is set to 1920x1080, including the resolutions for “Separate video<br />> modes for GUI and TV playback”<br />> The weird thing is that just entering<br />> Appearance settings in Setup -> Appearance cycling throught the pages<br />> without
changing anything and exiting causes the main menu to refresh<br />> and be correct, as it is when I just exit mythfrontend and reenter.<br />> Makes me wonder whether it's something to do with my desktop settings<br />> that are wrong when mythfrontend loads immediately after X. I can't<br />> remember now which desktop I'm using - probably xfce - can check this<br />> evening.<br /><br />I had similar happen intermittently a while back. It was cured by adding<br />"-geometry 1920x1080" to the mythfrontend command. I'm pretty sure I've<br />read on here that that couldn't possibly work because it is effectively<br />the same as putting the value in setup -> appearance. But, in any case,<br />it works for me.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Paul.<br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</blockquote><br /
>Thanks Paul,<br /><br /> Worth a try!<br /><br />Cheers!<br />Marius<br /><br /><br />