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xfce4-panel package

  1. Trusty (14.04)
  2. Bug #1282868
  3. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 1282868

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Phil Brady (phil-brady) wrote : Re: XFCE bar is visable over Mythfrontend on a fresh 14.04 install

I think this bug is showing inconsistent symptoms. I’ve seen four solutions proposed:

1. Restart frontend (or equivalently: delay it starting). Just does not work for me.

2. Set ‘legacy fullscreen’ and ‘enable workarounds’.in Compiz settings manager.
It required agreement to use OpenGL (Do I need it? – I am set to use VDPAU). Not working for me either.

3. I was able to force fullscreen by switching themes in frontend setup but it reverted at next frontend startup. This no longer works anyway but unsure why.

4. The DISPLAY wmctrl solution which does work. The DISPLAY must be issued after frontend has started. In order to catch all starting conditions I chose to spawn a background script with a new line at the start of /usr/bin/mythfrontend:

/usr/bin/ fullscreenfrontend.sh &

The fullscreenfrontend.sh script is as others have cleverly suggested is:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
DISPLAY=:0 wmctrl -r "MythTV Frontend" -b add,fullscreen

Now why is this all so inconsistent? Why do solutions work for some but not for others? What might be different about the setups?

I’m using Asus M3N78EM mobo with AMD CPU and onboard Nvidia 8300 graphics, 64 bit Mythbuntu 14.04, Nvidia 304 drivers ( 331.38 is unstable) VDPAU (not OpenGL) and mythwelcome.

Phil