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kevin at ucsd

Dec 27, 2002, 10:35 AM

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Window manager (program guide not getting focus)

For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
could that be the issue?).

Kevin Bowen

kedlm at knology

Dec 27, 2002, 10:55 AM

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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
you.

If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
front.

I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
posts by me in the last month or so.

Mike

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
> its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
> top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
> I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> could that be the issue?).
>
> Kevin Bowen
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>

kedlm at knology

Dec 27, 2002, 10:59 AM

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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

As far as the gui not stretching, look in the settings file.

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:55, Michael Kedl wrote:
> I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
> And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
> you.
>
> If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
> the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
> front.
>
> I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
> posts by me in the last month or so.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> > problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> > grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> > this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> > under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> > FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> > unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
> > its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
> > top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
> > I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> > could that be the issue?).
> >
> > Kevin Bowen
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>

kevin at ucsd

Dec 27, 2002, 2:03 PM

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RE: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

Hi,
I remember you posting that, but I didn't really understand why that would
work, so I guess I figured you had misunderstood my question, and never
tried the patch. I'll try it now. Out of curiosity, does this problem seem
to be something limited to the radeon? or just 7500's? Or is it something to
do with redhat (I notice all the people whove complained about this have
been running rh8 as well). Is this something which is fixed by installing
the gatos drivers?

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-admin [at] snowman
[mailto:mythtv-dev-admin [at] snowman]On Behalf Of Michael Kedl
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 9:55 AM
To: mythtv-dev [at] snowman
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Window manager (program guide not getting focus)

I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
you.

If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
front.

I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
posts by me in the last month or so.

Mike

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure
if
> its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in
the
> top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the
UI).
> I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> could that be the issue?).
>
> Kevin Bowen
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>

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maillists at sonictech

Dec 27, 2002, 2:49 PM

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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:35:19AM -0800, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> FVWM...

I've been using Myth with KDE for a while and havn't seen this problem
except once and logging out and back in again fixed it. With FVWM I did
have this problem and I had to make these changes to my fvwm2rc:

#Style "FvwmPager" Sticky, StaysOnTop, Handles, HandleWidth 5
Style "FvwmPager" Sticky, Handles, HandleWidth 5
Style "*" ClickToFocus

--
Ray

kevin at ucsd

Dec 27, 2002, 6:33 PM

Post #6 of 11 (1894 views)
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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

Ok, I changed that and rebuilt, but still the same thing. Also I don't
see anything in settings.txt about the gui stretching. I'm running .7,
do these fixes apply only to CVS?

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:55, Michael Kedl wrote:
> I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
> And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
> you.
>
> If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
> the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
> front.
>
> I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
> posts by me in the last month or so.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> > problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> > grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> > this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> > under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> > FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> > unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
> > its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
> > top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
> > I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> > could that be the issue?).
> >
> > Kevin Bowen
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev

ijr at po

Dec 27, 2002, 6:39 PM

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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

On Friday 27 December 2002 08:33 pm, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> Ok, I changed that and rebuilt, but still the same thing. Also I don't
> see anything in settings.txt about the gui stretching. I'm running .7,
> do these fixes apply only to CVS?

He meant theme.txt for the GUI size stuff.

Isaac

kevin at ucsd

Dec 27, 2002, 11:03 PM

Post #8 of 11 (1886 views)
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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

Ok, isaac was (of course) correct about themes.txt, so the gui size
issue is taken care of, but I'm pretty much stumped on the EPG issue.
Could you possibly give me a quick rundown of your setup so as to help
me figure out where my problem is? i.e. what myth version are you
running, on what linux distro, with what window manager? Do you have the
gatos drivers installed for your radeon?

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:55, Michael Kedl wrote:
> I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
> And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
> you.
>
> If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
> the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
> front.
>
> I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
> posts by me in the last month or so.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> > problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> > grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> > this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> > under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> > FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> > unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
> > its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
> > top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
> > I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> > could that be the issue?).
> >
> > Kevin Bowen
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev

kedlm at knology

Dec 29, 2002, 9:24 PM

Post #9 of 11 (1913 views)
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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

Myth 0.7
RedHat 8.0
KDE
X drivers that came with RedHat 8; so I don't think its gatos

Here is a guidegrid.cpp to try.

Mike

On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 01:03, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> Ok, isaac was (of course) correct about themes.txt, so the gui size
> issue is taken care of, but I'm pretty much stumped on the EPG issue.
> Could you possibly give me a quick rundown of your setup so as to help
> me figure out where my problem is? i.e. what myth version are you
> running, on what linux distro, with what window manager? Do you have the
> gatos drivers installed for your radeon?
>
> On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:55, Michael Kedl wrote:
> > I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
> > And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
> > you.
> >
> > If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
> > the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
> > front.
> >
> > I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
> > posts by me in the last month or so.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > > For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> > > problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> > > grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> > > this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> > > under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> > > FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> > > unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
> > > its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
> > > top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
> > > I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> > > could that be the issue?).
> > >
> > > Kevin Bowen
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> > >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>

Attachments:

guidegrid.cpp (32.1 KB)

kevin at ucsd

Dec 30, 2002, 1:46 AM

Post #10 of 11 (1860 views)
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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

Thanks, but still no go. Outa curiosity, did that guidegrid.cpp have
anything changed other than the +100 fix?

Really weird... we have basicly identical setups, but yours is working
and mine isn't. Is there anything else you can think of that you've done
that might have contributed to the problem going away? Is anyone else
having this problem? Has anything regarding window focus changed between
0.7 and CVS that might resolve this?

Any and all suggestions welcome

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 20:24, Michael Kedl wrote:
> Myth 0.7
> RedHat 8.0
> KDE
> X drivers that came with RedHat 8; so I don't think its gatos
>
> Here is a guidegrid.cpp to try.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 01:03, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > Ok, isaac was (of course) correct about themes.txt, so the gui size
> > issue is taken care of, but I'm pretty much stumped on the EPG issue.
> > Could you possibly give me a quick rundown of your setup so as to help
> > me figure out where my problem is? i.e. what myth version are you
> > running, on what linux distro, with what window manager? Do you have the
> > gatos drivers installed for your radeon?
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:55, Michael Kedl wrote:
> > > I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
> > > And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
> > > you.
> > >
> > > If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
> > > the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
> > > front.
> > >
> > > I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
> > > posts by me in the last month or so.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > > > For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> > > > problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> > > > grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> > > > this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> > > > under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> > > > FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> > > > unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
> > > > its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
> > > > top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
> > > > I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> > > > could that be the issue?).
> > > >
> > > > Kevin Bowen
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > > > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > > > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> >
--
Kevin Bowen <kevin [at] ucsd>

kevin at ucsd

Dec 31, 2002, 12:21 AM

Post #11 of 11 (1906 views)
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Re: Window manager (program guide not getting focus) [In reply to]

Update on this, in case anyone cares, or is having the same problem (or
does in the future and is reading this thread in the archives ;) : I
finally got gatos installed right, despite that project's non-newbified
documentation, and the problem is fixed. Also fixed a few other minor
problems that I had previously thought were with Myth.

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 20:24, Michael Kedl wrote:
> Myth 0.7
> RedHat 8.0
> KDE
> X drivers that came with RedHat 8; so I don't think its gatos
>
> Here is a guidegrid.cpp to try.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 01:03, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > Ok, isaac was (of course) correct about themes.txt, so the gui size
> > issue is taken care of, but I'm pretty much stumped on the EPG issue.
> > Could you possibly give me a quick rundown of your setup so as to help
> > me figure out where my problem is? i.e. what myth version are you
> > running, on what linux distro, with what window manager? Do you have the
> > gatos drivers installed for your radeon?
> >
> > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:55, Michael Kedl wrote:
> > > I replied a few weeks ago to the list on how to fix this.
> > > And since you have the same video card I'm assuming my fix will work for
> > > you.
> > >
> > > If you resize the epg background window to 100 taller than it is now,
> > > the video will not cover the window in such a way that it must be in
> > > front.
> > >
> > > I can't remember the exact line of code, but search the archive for
> > > posts by me in the last month or so.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 12:35, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> > > > For as long as I've been experimenting with Myth, I've been having the
> > > > problem of the EPG not being visible (it comes up in another window and
> > > > grabs the input focus, but it doesn't overlay on the viewer... I had heard
> > > > this mentioned on the list before and the answer given was to not use myth
> > > > under gnome or KDE, to instead use a more lightweight window manager like
> > > > FVWM... well I finally got around to installing FVWM, and the behavior is
> > > > unchanged. Any other ideas for what might be causing this? Also (not sure if
> > > > its related) the frontend doesnt stretch to fullscreen, it just sits in the
> > > > top-left 800x600 of the screen (video does go fullscreen, just not the UI).
> > > > I'm running redhat 8 with a radeon 7500 (with stock drivers, no gatos...
> > > > could that be the issue?).
> > > >
> > > > Kevin Bowen
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > > > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > > > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-dev mailing list
> > mythtv-dev [at] snowman
> > http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
> >
--
Kevin Bowen <kevin [at] ucsd>

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