[mythtv-users] Remote w/ dual-headed MythTV?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Jason Lowdermilk
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:07 PM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Remote w/ dual-headed MythTV?
>
>
> Has anyone come up with an elegant solution for using a remote with
> MythTV in a dual-headed environment?  I'm running MythTV on one head
> (the TV) while displaying a desktop on another head (the monitor), and
> for the most part it works fine.
>
> The main problem is this: once I bring up Myth on the TV and switch back
> to the desktop, the remote control stops working because Myth no longer
> has focus. However, if I edit my .lircrc and change "CurrentWindow" to
> "mythfrontend" everywhere, then I can navigate around Myth using the
> remote while the desktop has focus. But, once I enter one of the myth
> modules such as MythWeather or start watching TV, then mythfrontend is
> no longer the "right" window to send events to, and the remote stops
> working again.
>
> I can envision a kludgy solution involving different .lircrc files for
> each module and having the frontend restart lircd with a different config
> file as each module is entered/exited, but surely there's a more elegant
> way... any thoughts?

What version of Myth are you running?  The latest CVS version has reworked
the Myth window hierarchy so that everything is contained in a single
window, which would probably work with the setup you described above
('mythfrontend' instead of 'CurrentWindow').  I can't remember if this was
introduced in 0.9 or later (I think later, so that would mean it's only in
CVS).  If you have qualms about using the CVS version, Isaac has promised
0.10 very soon (possibly this week).

-JAC