Got it, thanks for the help! --- "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> korebantic wrote: > > >--- "Michael T. Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >>korebantic wrote: > >> > >>>My screen in both the horizontal and vertical > directions are stretched to far. When I log on as > the mythtv user and run mythtv-setup, I can't really > complete the setup because the next and previous > buttons are off the screen, etc. > >>> > >>Set GUI Size (in Myth's frontend settings) to > something smaller than your X screen size and set > your X and Y offsets to about half the difference. > Use something like 704x464 as a > >>starting point. > >> > >I'm new to mythTV, so could you spell it out a > little > >more for me =) > > > >Where do I configure this setting exactly? Will it > be > >necessary for me to have completed mythtv-setup > first? > >If so I'm in a bit of a catch-22 because I'm > finding > >it hard to navigate through setup with this > problem. > > > > > From the frontend GUI, go to > Utilities/Setup|Setup|Appearance > > GUI width (px) > The width of the GUI. Do not make the GUI wider > than your actual screen > resolution. Set to 0 to automatically scale to > fullscreen. > > GUI height (px) > The height of the GUI. Do not make the GUI taller > than your actual > screen resolution. Set to 0 to automatically scale > to fullscreen. > > GUI X offset > The horizontal offset the GUI will be displayed at. > May only work if > run in a window. > > GUI Y offset > The vertical offset the GUI will be displayed at. > > > Technically, you should run the mythtv-setup before > running mythfrontend > (and, therefore, before mythfrontend's setup). > However, you can > probably start mythbackend, start mythfrontend, go > to this menu to set > the GUI settings (noting that by default the focus > is on the Next > button, so you can just press Return to "skip" a > page). Then, quit > mythfrontend, then shutdown mythbackend, then run > mythtv-setup. > > However, a better approach is to redisplay the > backend config on a > monitor that's not constrained by the PVR-350's > overscan. I.e. > (assuming a machine called mythbox and a user called > mythtv) > > ssh -Y -l mythtv mythbox > mythtv-setup > > Make sure you use -Y and not -X (because you need a > trusted X session). > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
