[mythtv-users] screen stretching problems with running X on the PVR350

[harywilke]

Alt-n will work for next
Alt-b for back
Alt-f for finished
Alt-c for Cancel

that's what i use when i cant see the buttons.

-hary

On Nov 23, 2005, at 4:24 PM, korebantic wrote:

> Got it, thanks for the help!
>
> --- "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
>> korebantic wrote:
>>
>>> --- "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> korebantic wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> My screen in both the horizontal and vertical
>> directions are stretched to far. When I log on as
>> the mythtv user and run mythtv-setup, I can't really
>> complete the setup because the next and previous
>> buttons are off the screen, etc.
>>>>>
>>>> Set GUI Size (in Myth's frontend settings) to
>> something smaller than your X screen size and set
>> your X and Y offsets to about half the difference.
>> Use something like 704x464 as a
>>>> starting point.
>>>>
>>> I'm new to mythTV, so could you spell it out a
>> little
>>> more for me =)
>>>
>>> Where do I configure this setting exactly? Will it
>> be
>>> necessary for me to have completed mythtv-setup
>> first?
>>> If so I'm in a bit of a catch-22 because I'm
>> finding
>>> it hard to navigate through setup with this
>> problem.
>>>
>>>
>>  From the frontend GUI, go to
>> Utilities/Setup|Setup|Appearance
>>
>> GUI width (px)
>> The width of the GUI.  Do not make the GUI wider
>> than your actual screen
>> resolution.  Set to 0 to automatically scale to
>> fullscreen.
>>
>> GUI height (px)
>> The height of the GUI.  Do not make the GUI taller
>> than your actual
>> screen resolution.  Set to 0 to automatically scale
>> to fullscreen.
>>
>> GUI X offset
>> The horizontal offset the GUI will be displayed at.
>> May only work if
>> run in a window.
>>
>> GUI Y offset
>> The vertical offset the GUI will be displayed at.
>>
>>
>> Technically, you should run the mythtv-setup before
>> running mythfrontend
>> (and, therefore, before mythfrontend's setup).
>> However, you can
>> probably start mythbackend, start mythfrontend, go
>> to this menu to set
>> the GUI settings (noting that by default the focus
>> is on the Next
>> button, so you can just press Return to "skip" a
>> page).  Then, quit
>> mythfrontend, then shutdown mythbackend, then run
>> mythtv-setup.
>>
>> However, a better approach is to redisplay the
>> backend config on a
>> monitor that's not constrained by the PVR-350's
>> overscan.  I.e.
>> (assuming a machine called mythbox and a user called
>> mythtv)
>>
>> ssh -Y -l mythtv mythbox
>> mythtv-setup
>>
>> Make sure you use -Y and not -X (because you need a
>> trusted X session).
>>
>> Mike
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