[mythtv-users] is there a way to force mythfrontend to actually _obey_ -geometry?

Mark Kendall mark.kendall at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 10:31:20 UTC 2012


On 3 January 2012 05:15, Robert M. Riches Jr. <rm.riches at jacob21819.net> wrote:
> Is there some way to force mythfrontend to actually _obey_
> the -geometry option?
>
> Using the mythtv-frontend-0.24.1-20111019.0.1.mga1 and
> other packages supplied with Mageia 1 64-bit, I invoke
> mythfrontend with -geometry 640x360-0+0.  The window
> comes up correctly, the right size and in the upper
> right-hand corner of the screen.  However, a second or
> so later, it moves to the upper left-hand corner.  Is
> there a -yes-actually-do-obey-geometry option or one
> to that effect?

Based upon your arguments, mythfrontend *should* be in the top left
corner. Arguments 3 and 4 (which should be +X+Y) are offsets from that
corner. The fact that it first appears in the top right will just be
something related to your window manager.

regards

Mark


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