[mythtv] Window manager (program guide not getting focus)

[Kevin Bowen]

Update on this, in case anyone cares, or is having the same problem (or
does in the future and is reading this thread in the archives ;) : I
finally got gatos installed right, despite that project's non-newbified
documentation, and the problem is fixed. Also fixed a few other minor
problems that I had previously thought were with Myth. 

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 20:24, Michael Kedl wrote:
> Myth 0.7
> RedHat 8.0
> KDE
> X drivers that came with RedHat 8; so I don't think its gatos
> 
> Here is a guidegrid.cpp to try.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 01:03, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > Ok, isaac was (of course) correct about themes.txt, so the gui size
> > issue is taken care of, but I'm pretty much stumped on the EPG issue.
> > Could you possibly give me a quick rundown of your setup so as to help
> > me figure out where my problem is? i.e. what myth version are you
> > running, on what linux distro, with what window manager? Do you have the
> > gatos drivers installed for your radeon?
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:55, Michael Kedl wrote:
> > > I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
> > > And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
> > > you.
> > > 
> > > If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
> > > the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
> > > front.
> > > 
> > > I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
> > > posts by me in the last month or so.
> > > 
> > > Mike
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > > > For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> > > > problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> > > > grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> > > > this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> > > > under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> > > > FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> > > > unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
> > > > its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
> > > > top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
> > > > I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> > > > could that be the issue?).
> > > > 
> > > > Kevin Bowen
> > > > 
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Kevin Bowen <kevin@ucsd.edu>