[mythtv-users] Change layout: screen edges

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:40 +0100, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As MythTV appears to be designed for a computer monitor instead of for a
> plain old TV I am looking for wasy to leave a few more pixels around the
> edges of the menus so that e.g. the recordings screen does not have
> texts starting at the leftmost, right at the edge of the screen.
> Also other stuff is at the edges of the screens which does not look nice.
> 
> Also: How can I change the way the TV-program titles are cut off?
> It starts cutting off early and wastes space with a space and a few
> periods ('...'). I'd like to experiment with different ways.

Go to "Utilities/Setup:Setup:Appearance" then on the second pane change
the GUI width, height, X offset and Y offset to something that avoids
overscan on your TV. i.e. shrink the width and height to be smaller
than the resolution of your TV and increase the X and Y offset from
the defaults of 0 and 0, resp, to something between 8 and 16.

-- Daniel