[mythtv-users] Second Monitor

[Chris Hembrow]

Steve,

thanks, that sounds like it might be exactly what I'm looking for. It
might sound a bit odd, but I don't have a problem with a blank screen
when playing videos. I had thought about trying to get something like
vnc working, talking to itself, but this sounds better.

Yan, interesting idea, but ideally I'd want an exact duplicate of the
mythfrontend interface, and trying to manually make a menu structure
to mimic the frontend for 50gb of music could be a nightmare

thanks

On 2/6/06, yan seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> Chris Hembrow wrote:
>
> >I think you're misunderstanding my requirements, I don't want 2
> >independent frontends. Let's start again:
> >
> >I have a front end with 2 monitors attached. I want to be able to use
> >either monitor to control THE SAME mythfrontend. One of these monitors
> >is being driven by a really old, crappy 8mb pci graphics card, with no
> >hardware decoding. Because of this, I don't want tv/video outputting
> >to this screen, but I still want to be able to tell myth to play tv. I
> >realise this last is slightly redundant, but I have reasons.
> >
> >basically, i'm planning on trying to turn the second monitor into a
> >small touchscreen, on the front of my case, and outputting video to
> >this would be pretty pointless. If it is not possible to disable
> >video/tv, then I'll have to come up with an alternative solution
> >
> >
> >
>
> OK, step out of the box.  Set up a second monitor, start a new X session
> in it, and then use either kbdd or kbde (your choice, google for them)
> and a menuing system of your design to send keystrokes to the real
> mythfrontend.
>
> I'd be curious if this would work with the 'telnet socket control' with
> the new 0.19....
>
> Let me know after you have it working  :-)
>
> --Yan
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