[mythtv-users] Start Myth frontend on different display?

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Oct 3 22:01:32 UTC 2010


  On 10/3/2010 16:03, James Crow wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>>   On 10/3/2010 15:23, Matt Emmott wrote:
>>> Is there an easy way to start mythfrontend on my secondary display and
>>> have it inherit the screen's resolution?
>> You can force a resolution and location at boot with '-geometry WWWxHHH+X+Y'
> I start myhtfrontend on my secondary display. My system is setup for
> TwinView. My primary display is :0.0 and my secondary display is :0.1.
> When I start mythfrontend I pass it the option of '-display :0.1'.

You are running two independent screens on your X server.  On such a 
setup, you cannot drag windows from one screen to another as described 
by the OP.


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