On January 31, 2005 12:15 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:06, Mike Green wrote: > > >In any event, I don't believe there's any reason why you wouldn't be > > >able to use Xv. > > > > Maybe it was my ivtv module that does not support Xv? > > > > Regardless, I have yet to find an answer to the mplayer foreground > > question. > > > I have persued every google link known to man, and cannot find an > > answer. > > > Anyone? > > > > Would this be a more appropriate question for the developers list? > > > > One thing I forgot to mention. After launching mplayer, the remote > > does not > > > effect mplayer, but if I kill mplayer manually I notice that the > > remote > > > presses were acted on by mythtv. I.e. if I hit stop, mythtv starts > > backing > > > out of menus back to the exit prompt... > > If you're not going to use LIRC (using both Myth's and MPlayer's native > LIRC support), then your best option is to use a lightweight window > manager like blackbox, and all of your keyboard focus problems should > go away. X is quite quirky about keyboard focus when there's no window > manager. > > -JAC > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
For me the answer was to launch a new console something like this: wterm -e mplayer .... I forget whether I needed to use quotes or anything like that. Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
