[mythtvnz] MythTV on separate X screen?

[Nick Rout]

yes on mythbuntu ctrl-esc will give you the applications menu. once
you have another program open alt-tab will switch from app to app.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Duncan Kennington
<duncan.kennington at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried just leaving those applications you want running in the
> background and using alt tab to switch between them?  I usually leave
> Firefox running behind myth for youtube and assorted web surfing and just
> flick back and forth.
>
> On 20/01/2010 5:39 PM, "Stephen Worthington" <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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