[mythtv-users] MythTV frontend crashing

[Justin Smith]

> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 20:20:07 +0800, you wrote:
>
>>Issue #2
>>
>> ...
>>
>>While MythTV works fine as expected, I've noticed that the frontend
crashes
>>some time after I've stopped watching a show. I don't notice the crash
>>because I've either switched off the TV or watching some other TV app.
Note
>>that it's a relatively minor annoyance because it has never happened
during
>>a show. The frontend never crashed under Ubuntu 22.04.
>>
>> ...
>>
>
> You are running on Wayland rather than X11.  In the past, to make
> mythfrontend work properly with Wayland, you had to add a command line
> option to mythfrontend:
>
> -platform xcb
>
> I do not use Wayland (I swap Ubuntu back to X11), so I have never
> tried this.  As well, the devs have been fixing Wayland problems, so I
> do not know if the xcb option is still required.  But it is worth
> trying.

Thanks for the suggestion Stephen. That stopped the crashes. Also
fixes the mouse problem (pointer not disappearing) I raised in an earlier
email.

Although it's odd that I never had the problem with Ubuntu 22.04. I used
Wayland on this system too.


Cheers,
Justin.
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