[mythtv-users] Ratpoison overscan

[Darren Hart]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 07:24, papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu wrote:
> 	Hello... I believe someone had mentioned this in a thread a few days 
> ago, but I never saw any replies.  One problem with ratpoision as a WM is that 
> it forces all windows to be maximized, full-screen.  That's great most of the 
> time, but some video card combinations cannot reduce the overscan, so the 
> top/bottom/sides of any terminal opened up for debugging purposes will be cut 
> off on the TV.  I have emailed the author, but have so far received no 
> response.  Any suggestions?

You can use the -c option to ratpoison on the command line to run
commands, like 'ratpoison -c defpadding 10 10 10 10', which will run
windows maximized minus 10 pixels on each side.  Ratposion uses frames,
this actually pads a frame.  See 'pinfo ratpoison' or try the irc
channel, they were very helpful, #ratpoison on freenode.

--Darren

> 
> 	I believe I have succeeded in scripting up one large encap package and
> script that does *everything* necessary to fire up mythtv (assuming the kernel
> and modules are ready to load).  It does root things as root, and user things
> as a user with sudo.  It should facilite making a new myth box from scratch
> without having to tediously go through a list of settings to check.  It runs 
> bare X with ratpoison to reduce the overhead of GDM/KDM and all that 
> unnecessary jazz.  If I could figure out this ratpoison thing, things would be 
> good!
> 
> Thanks,
> -Cory