From: Petr S. <pst...@so...> - 2003-01-28 11:34:05
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On Út, 2003-01-28 at 12:22, Siggi Langauf wrote: > > On Út, 2003-01-28 at 11:19, Siggi Langauf wrote: > > > At least with sawfish, "xine --geometry 800x600+0+0 --borderless" places > > > the xine window top-left, even above the top menubar (which is a gnome > > > menu panel). > > > > Metacity does not allow you to do that (just tried). > > So the position is correct, but the menu is layered above xine? Nope. The window stays at (0,24). xine -G 800x600+0+25 places xine window 1 line under the menu bar. xine -G 800x600+0+24 places xine window right under the menu bar. xine -G 800x600+0+12 does NOT place xine window into middle of the menu bar height - it keeps it right under the menu bar. xine -G 800x600+0+0 still keeps the xine window right under the menu bar, i.e. at +0+24. > > > Hmmm, you should always be able to start any program on that "RightOf" > > > display by just setting your DISPLAY environment variable to ":0.1"... > > > > I may try that but this may bring more problems (for example with > > configuring as the xine panel would not be accessible - the TV is in > > another room than the keyboard and mouse). > > So how do you control xine then? I walk into the office room, run xine and walk back to living room ;-) Since the second head clones the first head the TV shows the desktop and everything else running there, but only 800x600 piece of it. So Xine window is visible on the main head and xine can easily be configured. > > > If your videos have a suitable resolution, the gui.use_xvidext option > > > should do that. > > > > What does it do exactly? Switches to nearest larger resolution than is > > the res of the video? That could indeed work for most video material I > > have here. > > That's exactly what it does. I just tried it and it would work perfectly only if it did hide the menu bar and taskbar. Petr |