On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:43:55 +0100, anders smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with the menus on my mythtv-xbox.
> 
> The windowmanager is blackbox and often the desktop menus pop on top
> of the tv image while viewing a recording and I have a ard time
> getting rd of them...
> 
> Is there a setting in the window manager I can change to disable the
> desktop menus completely or prevent them from poping up all the time
> or do I need to switch to another one...
> 
> rgds
> anders

I had this exact problem and asked on the message forum for the Myth
XBox distribution about it and no one could answer... eventually I
discovered the problem on my own and fixed it.

The reason no one else had the problem was that I had a somewhat new
situation... my XBox was a v1.6 with the new video chip, so no
overscan support is available... the image is permanently beyond the
borders of my TV screen.  Because of that, I had adjusted the MythTV
GUI and video display (from within Myth's setup screens) to run
smaller than 640x480 (I can't remember the exact dimensions) and
slightly offset from the upper-left corner (again, I can't remember
the exact amounts).

The upshot of this was that MythTV was not taking up the entire
desktop, although it was taking up my entire TV screen.

Now, while MythTV doesn't use a mouse, the rest of your desktop is
happy to.  As you use your remote in MythTV, you are also moving your
mouse cursor.  Depending on where your cursor is at the time, certain
remote buttons will bring up desktop/context menus, which are then
difficult to dismiss.

Because I don't use any other applications on my XBox besides MythTV,
I decided the way to fix this was to simply disable the XBox IR mouse
emulation.  You can do this in the X config file (comment out the
appropriate section).  I haven't had a problem since.

I'm at work now, but if you want me to check exactly what you should
change in your X config file I can do that when I get home - let me
know.

--David
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