[mythtv-users] Updated mythbuntu theme version 28

[Ken Truesdale]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Truesdale [mailto:kentruesdale at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 6:32 AM
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Updated mythbuntu theme version 28
> 
> On Apr 3, 2014, at 10:20 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
> > That is a super weird issue. I'm going to shoot you an email off list
> > and have you try a few things, but I'm not sure what would cause that.
> 
> 
> To close off this part of this thread, Thomas's e-mail off-list suggested,
> among other things, that I try putting back the background from 27.1 and
that
> did fix my vertical banding, text shadow fuzz, and the splotchiness.  (The
old
> background is the wrong size and didn't tile so it isn't a complete fix.)
Also
> worth reporting that moving that frontend to display on a computer monitor
> did work with the new 28.7 background.  Which means my TV doesn't like the
> new background for some still unknown reason.  I'll work with Thomas
> separately and if we discover anything interesting, I'll post to the list.


I was able to greatly reduce the display artifacts by lowering the sharpness
setting on my TV!  Amazing that the sharpness setting could introduce such
strange artifacts and even more amazing that just the theme background
change could trigger the artifacts.  

However, I say that I was only able to reduce the artifacts and not
completely get rid of them.  There was some vertical banding remaining no
matter what setting I tried.  So I created my own background for the
Mythbuntu theme that is a simple solid color with no moire-like effects and
that completely solved the artifacts problem.  I've posted the background
image to the forum post for anyone else that may find screen artifacts
resulting from your TV fighting with the new Mythbuntu theme background.  

https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=110&p=477#p477