Probably a keyboard focus issue. My suggestion is to go ahead and run twm, it uses almost no ram and very little CPU while running and manages your mouse focus.
Myself I run kde, but with "mouse-over focus", meaning that whatever's in front gets absolute keyboard focus, works like a champ for me. The "click-to-focus" gave me sporadic problems like this. Gavin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karsten Jeppesen Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 12:51 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: [mythtv-users] How to start X correctly for MythTV This was initially a question of why I couldn't get keys to work with mplayer (the dvd player used inMythTV). I have installed MythTV using a minimal install of FC3 (choose custom->minimal when installing) because I want the leanest possible solution. I have MythTV working otherwise which means that I have set up the /etc/X11/xorg.conf correctly (or so I believe). I am not using twm (the X-window manager) because MythTV is the only application using the screen. But When I choose "Play DVD" the DVD starts playing - good - but the keyboard is not recognized by the mplayer. I first thought that was an error in mplayer, but a nice guy on this list made me aware of that it might be a focus problem. At the moment I have a very simple start-up sequence. I just start X, then mythbackend and finally mythfrontend. Works fine. If I start twm, then twm will make mplayer launch a new window to be positioned. Then it will fail, so obviously I am missing something. What are the options here? Can it work without twm? I guess so, but what say you ??? Karsten _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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