On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:50:20 -0700 Eric <eri...@cox.net> said: > > > On 2/9/19 10:00 PM, eric wrote: > > On 2/8/19 1:53 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 08:28:20 -0800 Eric <eri...@cox.net> said: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 2/5/19 8:04 AM, Mick wrote: > >>>> On Tuesday, 5 February 2019 13:12:38 GMT Eric wrote: > >>>>> Hello, > >>>>> > >>>>> I have had a problem with kodi on the enlightenment desktop for quite > >>>>> some time and have had no luck trying to resolve it. > >>>>> > >>>>> The problem is that kodi only shows a black window when it is in > >>>>> windowed mode. It works fine in full screen mode. It has been like > >>>>> this > >>>>> since about the time xbmc became kodi. > >>>>> > >>>>> This occurs with Ubuntu, Arch and openSuse with Intel and Nvidia video > >>>>> cards. > >>>>> > >>>>> Has anyone used kodi on their enlightenment desktop in windowed mode > >>>>> with success? > >>>>> > >>>>> I have not had any luck searching for solutions on the internet. > >>>>> > >>>>> I like to use kodi in windowed mode so I can keep an eye on other > >>>>> things > >>>>> going on such as temperature when using it as a media player without > >>>>> having to close the app or switch to a different terminal. > >>>>> > >>>>> Regards, > >>>>> > >>>>> Eric > >>>> > >>>> I've had a similar experience with various apps using hardware > >>>> acceleration, > >>>> so I blamed Radeon for it. > >>>> > >>>> The workaround for me has been to press Ctrl+Alt+End which restarts the > >>>> compositor and the app window is rendered properly thereafter. > >>>> > >>>> HTH in your case. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Thank you for responding but unfortunately no luck with the > >>> Ctrl+Alt+End. > >>> > >>> I have seen that there are similar problems when using the Cinnamon > >>> desktop that has something to do with the rendering of kodi. > >>> > >>> I was hoping someone had it working from the list and could tell me > >>> their secret. :-) > >> > >> http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-5c5d426e1f3f71.90449760.jpg > >> > >> :) > >> > >> out of the box (amdgpu driver). FYI I also have it working on an intel > >> gfx > >> system too - no issues there. have had that one going for maybe 1.5 > >> years? i > >> have in the past had it work on nvidia drivers too. sorry that it's a > >> tale of > >> "it just works" with no help there, but suffice to say it can and does > >> work for > >> people, so maybe there is something more specific you are doing that > >> others are > >> not that causes this? > > > > Thank you for the information. You and Daniel both give me hope that it > > can be done as it is being done. It is more than likely something that > > I am doing or failing to do. > > > > Ubuntu is the only distro I build enlightenment from source anymore and > > my Arch boxes are pretty sparse with what I install so I may be missing > > something. Also these are all laptops with intel i5 or i7 with either > > intel or nvidia video which I should have mentioned in the beginning. > > > > I just wanted to report that kodi 18.1 is working now in windowed mode > on my updated arch computer with enlightenment 22.4 and efl 1.21.1-2 > after updating this week. I don't know what was causing the problem but > it works now. Hooray.
yay! :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
