[mythtv-users] Disk Space Way Wrong

[Andy Sheen]

Raymond Wagner wrote on Sun 22 Apr at 17:06 UK time
> On 4/22/2012 06:57, Andy Sheen wrote:
>> Mike Perkins wrote on Sun 22 Apr at 11:39 UK time
>>> Why complain that it takes over the entire screen? When I'm doing setup
>>> I want my entire attention to be on a task that it's very easy to screw
>>> up. While it's away doing things I can always Alt+Tab to whatever else I
>>> have open.
>> Because in the default skin (at least in 0.23 which I'm using) it takes
>> up THE ENTIRE SCREEN and if you are using dual monitors, that means it
>> takes up BOTH screens, often putting the bit you are interested across
>> the split in the screens.
> 
> Rather, the default UI settings take up the entire screen, as the UI is
> primarily used for the frontend, which makes sense to use the entire
> screen.  The skin/theme has absolutely nothing to do with it.  It will
> take however much room you specify it use in the frontend, and will
> follow command line overrides such as --geometry XxY, --windowed, and
> --mouse-cursor.

And that always assumes you run a front end ;) I just use mythbackend. I
don't have a single mythfrontend in the house. I know that makes me odd,
but....

I'll try the --geometry etc. next time I run it though.