[mythtv-users] mythfrontend on a 2 monitor Ubuntu PC

[Mark Wedel]

On 10/17/20 10:59 AM, DaveD wrote:
> On 10/17/20 4:10 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
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>> On 10/17/20 6:59 AM, Paul Harrison wrote:
>>> On 17/10/2020 11:42, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just added a second monitor to our main desktop Ubuntu PC. Obviously great for office work, but sometimes it would be convenient to have mythfrontend on one screen and still have something important like solitaire :-) on the other.  However when I launch mythfrontend it starts up on monitor with the dock bar so I can't launch other programs once I've start watching mythfrontend.
>>>>
>>>> Short of making mythfrontend windowed, is there a way of launching mythfrontend to display #2?
>>>>
>>>> Jim A
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm on master but I think 31-fixes is similar. The 'Display on screen' setting should show a list of monitors from which you can choose which one the frontend with startup on. It's under Appearance -> Theme / Screen Settings.
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>>>
>>> Paul H.
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>>
>> Yes that works for fixes/31 as well.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim A
> 
> When I had two desktops (one on the TV and one on the monitor) I started Mythfrontend as either
> 
> /usr/bin/mythfrontend -display :0.0  (on the monitor)
> 
> or
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> /usr/bin/mythfrontend -display :0.1  (on the TV)
> 
> Now I have one continuous desktop so I launch them as
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> /usr/bin/mythfrontend -geometry 1920x1080+0+0  (on the monitor)
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> or
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> /usr/bin/mythfrontend -geometry 1920x1080+1920+0  (on the TV)
> 
> irexec always uses the second one (launches on the TV) and I have a shortcut (icon) on the TV that does the same.  There's a different one on the monitor to launch it there.  Works great. (KDE, btw)
> 

  I start it in windowed mode (-w) so that the window manager can manage the window, and I can move it about where I like.

  I also set the size, since mythfrontend will size itself to the entire display.  I'm running a 40" 4K monitor, so having it be 1080p size is what I typically want.  I have the following set up:

mythtv is aliased to `mythfrontend -geometry 1920x1080+30+30 -w'