[mythtv-users] Minimize frontend?

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 17:52:08 UTC 2014


Hoi Matt,

Sunday, June 29, 2014, 7:33:19 PM, you wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> Hoi Doug,
>  

>  
>  
> Another alternative I use is giving myth it's own virtual window. With
>  most windowmanagers you can swith between them with Ctrl-Alt-left and
>  right and often with Ctrl-alt-1 2 3 etc.
>  
> Hmm, preliminary testing shows that this might be an option! I'll play with this a bit, thanks!

On my main frontend that runs with evilwm as window manager I use
following .xinit to start windows to specified virtual windows. Your
wm possibly also has this kind of possibilities.

The first part as switches to evilwm sets defaults and further I start
the wanted windows. The -v switch sets the virtual window.

# .xinitrc
cd 
[ -x /usr/bin/nvidia-settings ] && /usr/bin/nvidia-settings -l
/usr/bin/xset s noblank
/usr/bin/xset s off
/usr/bin/xset -dpms
#~/.screenlayout/set-768x576i.sh

/usr/bin/evilwm \
-snap 10 -bw 1 \
-bg rgb:0/0/3fff -fg rgb:0/0/ffff \
-app xclock/XClock -s \
-app xterm/XTerm -g 116x41+11+25 \
-app xmyth/XTerm -v 0 -g 116x39+11+25 \
-app xradio/XTerm -v 1 -g 86x41+11+6 \
-app xstart/XTerm -v 2 -g 116x39+11+25 \
-app xvnc/XTerm -v 3 -g 116x39+11+25 \
-app kradio4/Kradio4 -v 1 \
-app mythfrontend/Mythfrontend -v 0 &

exec /usr/bin/xterm -name "xmyth" \
-bg rgb:0/0/3fff \
-fg rgb:ffff/ffff/ffff \
-e ~/.scripts/StartMyth.sh &

exec /usr/bin/xterm -name "xradio" \
-bg rgb:0/0/3fff \
-fg rgb:ffff/ffff/ffff \
-e ~/.scripts/switch_radio_station.sh &

exec /usr/bin/xterm -name "xstart" \
-bg rgb:0/0/3fff \
-fg rgb:ffff/ffff/ffff \
-e /bin/bash &

exec /usr/bin/xterm -name "xvnc" \
-bg rgb:0/0/3fff \
-fg rgb:ffff/ffff/ffff \
-e ~/.scripts/StartVnc.sh &

exec xclock -digital -padding 2 -norender -g -0+0 \
-bg rgb:0/0/3fff \
-fg rgb:ffff/ffff/ffff




scp

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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