[mythtv-users] Full screen

[jedi]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:30:33PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 11:52 AM, jedi wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:41:39PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >>On 06/30/2013 05:01 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> >>>I mostly run the frontend in a window on my monitor, DISPLAY=:0.0
> >>>
> >>>This puts it onto the TV.  Fedora, 0.26-fixes, but it may still be
> >>>usable.
> >>>
> >>>#!/bin/bash
> >>># Run MythTV front end on display 1
> >>># For Panasonic TX-L32E5B HDMI1 via DVI-I adapter
> >>># This is for use if Overscan is OFF
> >>>#
> >>># It seems that that requires _both_
> >>>#  that the TV overscan is OFF
> >>>#  and that the TV aspect ratio is set to [16:9]
> >>>#  If aspect ratio is AUTO it seems that Overscan is ON
> >>>#
> >>>#
> >>>export DISPLAY=:0.1
> >>>mythfrontend --geometry 1920x1080+0+0
> >>There's absolutely no reason to always run mythfrontend with a
> >>geometry override.  Instead, just set mythfrontend's settings to
> >>specify a size of 1920x1080 (or 0x0 if running on a 1920x1080
> >>monitor/if you want full screen) with an X&  Y offset of 0.
> >>
> >>In other words, you should set the settings to tell MythTV what you
> >>want rather than use a settings override on every start of MythTV.
> >     Using the bog standard X command line options is a perfectly sensible approach.
> >
> 
> The point was that using it *every* time (see the "always" in
> there?) is wrong because we allow you to specify it once, instead.

    Calling it wrong is just nonsensical bullshit. It's easy enough to
make it part of your standard way of calling the program. There's really
no good reason to tell people to avoid it.

    MythTV following and old convention like this is actually a good thing.

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