[mythtv-users] remote display from frontend

[Eric Sharkey]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 10/27/2015 09:55 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
>>>
>>> It would also be nice if I could dynamically resize the virtual screen; I
>>> don't know if myth would be any happier with me resizing the window in a
>>> real machine.
>>
>> The frontend doesn't support dynamic resizing.  It would be nice if it
>> did, but it doesn't.  I have a menu defined in my window manager that
>> can launch the frontend in a variety of different sizes, but switching
>> sizes always involves killing it and restarting.
>
>
> No, switching sizes just involves going into frontend settings and changing
> the size under Appearance settings (and, potentially, changing the "Use GUI
> size for TV playback" checkbox).

If you switch sizes frequently, that's a very impractical method.
Using --geometry flags on the command line is much easier.

Eric