[mythtv-users] mplayer still not in focus

Cory Papenfuss papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu
Tue Jul 26 10:23:42 EDT 2005


On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Mike Green wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 July 2005 05:58 am, Cory Papenfuss spammed:
>
>>  	I have chosen 'ratpoison' as my WM of choice.  Perfect for a
>> PVR... no decorations/titlebars, etc.  Everything is full-screen, and you
>> can pull up a terminal with a keystroke that mimics the 'screen' terminal
>> program.
>
> Cory, do you have to tweak any rc files or with ratpoison?  I spent a couple
> of hours last night attempting to tweak .twmrc and .fvwmrc to get twm or
> fvwm2 working.  Both times there was one or two problems that I could not
> get around.  For example, with twm, attempting to schedule a recording by
> using the program schedule would bring the program schedule up in the
> background.
>

 	The only ratpoison setting I tried to mess with was to fix the 
overscan my tvout stuff does.  With ratpoison, whatever window is active, 
it is made fullscreen.  I also believe that if a new window is drawn, it 
becomes active and is thus fullscreen.  Toggling from one to the other 
requires a "screen-like" keystroke... 'Ctrl-t, 0' for the 0th window, etc. 
Pulling up an xterm is 'Ctrl-t, n' for a New window.

 	Hope that helps.... all I can suggest is to give it a try.  It's 
about as lightweight as a window manager can be.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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