[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend only covers half screen on startup

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Tue Aug 20 12:40:18 UTC 2013


On 20/08/2013 13:24, Marius Schrecker wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 13:57 CEST, Jean-Yves Avenard
> <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 20 August 2013 17:19, Marius Schrecker wrote:
>      > Hi again,
>      >
>      > I just upgraded my TV from a 720p to a 1080p model (great to
>     finally have
>      > refresh rates that match framerates), but after changing the screen
>      > resolution in setup -> appearance, the frontend only covers half
>     the screen
>      > on initial startup (after booting the machine) - attachment. If I run
>      > through the appearance setup pages again (without changing
>     anything, the
>      > frontend resizes to cover the whole screen). Exiting and restarting
>      > mythfrontend behaves as expected. I didn't have time to capture
>     the logs
>      > this morning, but can try to do it this evening, unless anyone
>     already knows
>      > the answer.
>     Did you change the resolution on the first page of the Appearance
>     settings in Setup -> A ppearance?
>
>     And if you have the "“Separate video modes for GUI and TV playback”
>     check, make sure the resolution is properly set there too.
>     _______________________________________________
>
>
> Hi and thanks Jean-Yves,
>
>     Yes, I did that the first time I connected up the new TV. Everything
> there is set to 1920x1080, including the resolutions for “Separate video
> modes for GUI and TV playback”
> The weird thing is that just entering
> Appearance settings in Setup -> Appearance cycling throught the pages
> without changing anything and exiting causes the main menu to refresh
> and be correct, as it is when I just exit mythfrontend and reenter.
>   Makes me wonder whether it's something to do with my desktop settings
> that are wrong when mythfrontend loads immediately after X. I can't
> remember now which desktop I'm using - probably xfce - can check this
> evening.

I had similar happen intermittently a while back. It was cured by adding
"-geometry 1920x1080" to the mythfrontend command. I'm pretty sure I've
read on here that that couldn't possibly work because it is effectively
the same as putting the value in setup -> appearance. But, in any case,
it works for me.

Cheers,
	Paul.


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