[Kwintv] xinerama prob

George Staikos kwintv@mail.kde.org
Thu, 13 Feb 2003 01:19:20 -0500


On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:51, Christoph Dohmen wrote:
> Am Montag, 10. Februar 2003 19:42 schrieb George Staikos:
> >   Yes this is the old kwintv.  The rewrite (not yet released, but usable)
> > does not have this problem, but it does not use overlay yet.  The problem
> > is that v4l overlay doesn't understand Xinerama directly.  I doubt this
> > will ever be fixed.  Move the window over to the primary screen and you
> > should be ok I think.
>
> No, it's not! I tried it. If I start kwintv the window appears in the upper
> left corner of the desktop, which is the secondary display. The picture
> rises on the upper left corner of the first display! If I drag the
> kwintv-window to the first display, the tv-picture leaves the display on
> the right hand side.

   Hm that's too bad.  I had this working for myself (at least at one time).  
I guess it's broken again.

> p.s. I don't have this problem using xawtv. So there seems to be a
> possibility to show tv-pictures inside the app-window using xinerama.

   It might be using a different output mode.  kwintv only supports one.. v4l 
overlay. :)

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George Staikos