[mythtvnz] MythTV on separate X screen?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:42:56 +1300, you wrote:

>Stephen Worthington wrote, On 20/01/10 17:39:
>> I am not sure of the correct terminology here, so bare with me.
>> Mythfrontend normally runs fullscreen, and I also want to be able to
>> use the desktop underneath it.  The only keyboard minimising control I
>> can find that mythfrontend responds to is Ctrl-Alt-d, which minimises
>> everything to show a clean desktop.  That is very annoying when I want
>> to be able to work on the windows underneath.  So is it possible to
>> set up a second X screen and run Mythfrontend on that (say
>> Ctrl-Alt-F8) and keep the desktop visible on the normal X screen
>> (Ctrl-Alt-F7)?  I do want to keep keyboard access to mythfrontend, so
>> a separate X server is not the answer.
>>
>>   
>Sounds like you want two separate X sessions, but I suspect you really 
>want a video card with two connectors, so you can connect two screens.
>
>mythfrontend can be told which display to put itself on, and after that 
>you just need to change focus to have your keystrokes go to myth.
>
>
>Another thing I've wanted to try is running mythtv on a separate video 
>card/monitor with a separate keyboard talking to just that xserver.  

I actually have two video cards in this box: the old motherboard one
(6550?) and an 8400 GS PCIe one.  But I only have the one TV for
output, so what I need is a way of having two separate X screens (it
that is what they are called) on the one TV.