On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:13:55PM +0000, Paul Faulkner wrote: > It's because the mythfrontend window loses focus, so > if you're running it on a desktop then you can click to another window > and then back in the mythfrontend window and it will work again.
I used to have a similar problem when using mplayer from mythvideo. When the frontend is running there are actually three generations of mythfrontend in the 'ps' tree. The external players get launched from the middle process, and it was common for mplayer to only accept keyboard input for a few seconds, after which the only way to stop it was to kill the xserver using ctl-alt-backspace. I did some testing and discovered that if the external player sends back anything via stderr then the middle mythfrontend process would steal the focus. After that happened, even if I let mplayer go to the end of the file and exit on its own, the foreground mythfrontend *still* wouldn't get the focus. The solution was to edit the external player command line in mythvideo to append " > /dev/null 2>&1" so that the middle myth wouldn't get any feedback and would therefore not steal the focus. -- "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis (1935)
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