[mythtv-users] Fix for problems with making VLC go fullscreen w. Compiz

[Joe Auty]

Hello,

A fairly well known fix that allows you to go full screen in MythTV
while you are running Compiz is copying mythfrontend to mythfrontend.2
and running:

metacity --replace &
/usr/bin/mythfrontend.2
compiz --replace &


To run VLC at full screen as well, in your player settings set the
default player to:

compiz --replace&vlc file://%s vlc:quit;metacity --replace &



I hope that eventually MythTV and Compiz/Beryl work a little better
together so that these sorts of strategies aren't necessary...

I hope this is useful to somebody out there!




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Joe Auty
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