[mythtv-users] Minimize frontend?

[Daryl McDonald]

I have multiple desktops enabled, and then navigate (Ctrl+Alt+north south
east or west) for various other tasks.


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 2:00 PM, david brooke <david2012brooke at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running Mythtv-frontend on Ubuntu 12.04. This particular FE is in my
>> garage and serves as a media player with things like Spotify, Pithos and
>> Plex installed. One of the annoyances is that the Myth FE lives in a
>> fullscreen all the time mode, so the only way to get to to other apps is
>> via alt-tab. This is made more cumbersome by the fact that some of my
>> fellow shadetree mechanics are not the computing genius that I am.
>>
>> I know that Plex will let me switch to windowed mode via the \ button and
>> it can then be minimized. This is not ideal but is a step in the right
>> direction. I was wondering if there was a way I could minimize MythTV via a
>> hotkey or some sort of key combination?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
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>> I basically tell Mythtv to be a pixel smaller in height so that it won't
> capture the fullscreen allowing me to use Mythtv like a regular window. The
> only real disadvantage is that if you have a lighter window / desktop
> background behind the Mythtv window, you might see a 1 pixel line at the
> bottom of the screen. Also I hide my taskbar. The following is the setup:
> TV-Setup-Appearance-Theme / Screen settings:
> GUI Height in pixels = 1079 (this would be 1 less than the height. In this
> example I use 1080)
> Use GUI size for TV playback = checked
>
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