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canucks604

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 18

starting application on a preferred screen

hi,

i was wonder if it's at all possible to start an application on a preferred screen with dual monitor.
right now i have a dual monitor setup, 1 is an lcd monitor and the other one is an lcd tv (which i mainly use for watching tv)
what i want to do is.

1. hit the power button on a remote control (calling irexec to run mythfrontend)
2. mythfront end load on the lcd tv

and pretty much all multimedia apps will run off teh lcd tv.  right now if i want to run anything on the lcd tv, i'd have to move the mouse over to that screen and run the program from there.

any way i can do this?

thanks

noriko

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Registered: 2006-06-09

Posts: 535

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Re: starting application on a preferred screen

i dunno if it helps ... but if you can config ur monitors to use separate v/c then you could use somethig like .. `startx`

startx /usr/bin/command args -- :2

to start a program with it's args on display 2 ... for this i usually jsut use :9 then it defaults to the next avaialable screen

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Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: starting application on a preferred screen

Maybe this does what you want

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canucks604

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Registered: 2007-01-27

Posts: 18

Re: starting application on a preferred screen

yes! thank you! really appreciate that link