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Two new MCWS issues with Linux
bob:
The
/Mediaserver
switch isn't really a server mode.
It's MC in standard mode, error-free (no dialog boxes) brought up Iconic.
That's why it's not responding as you expect to the MCWS.
I haven't tried it but I'm pretty sure you can use that switch on windows or MacOS as well.
The only server mode in MC linux is set in the startup options.
avid:
--- Quote from: bob on August 14, 2023, 08:23:11 am ---The
/Mediaserver
switch isn't really a server mode.
It's MC in standard mode, error-free (no dialog boxes) brought up Iconic.
That's why it's not responding as you expect to the MCWS.
I haven't tried it but I'm pretty sure you can use that switch on windows or MacOS as well.
The only server mode in MC linux is set in the startup options.
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I am using server mode (installed via installJRMC and in the startup options). But I can find no way to make any MC to appear on the desktop if it has been minimized. This has always worked on Windows. But on Linux I have to be very careful to get an MC on a screen after login and never to let it disappear, If I do, nothing I have found will bring it back other than a user interaction with the desktop.
I am still experimenting, but if you have any ideas I will be very grateful. It is feeling somewhat fragile as I have it now.
BryanC:
--- Quote from: avid on August 14, 2023, 11:42:09 am ---I am using server mode (installed via installJRMC and in the startup options). But I can find no way to make any MC to appear on the desktop if it has been minimized. This has always worked on Windows. But on Linux I have to be very careful to get an MC on a screen after login and never to let it disappear, If I do, nothing I have found will bring it back other than a user interaction with the desktop.
I am still experimenting, but if you have any ideas I will be very grateful. It is feeling somewhat fragile as I have it now.
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Instead of using MCC to control the window behavior from within MC, does your window manager or DE offer any commands that could control it externally?
leezer3:
Have you considered virtual desktops for your use-case?
Just drop the MC window onto a spare virtual desktop, and that solves the minimize/ maximize issue?
Obviously you'd need to hotkey switching desktops on the remote, but it would seem to be a quite good solution.
max096:
--- Quote from: avid on August 13, 2023, 10:06:02 am ---I can certainly minimize the window in this way. But nothing I have tried has allowed me (on Ubuntu) to cause MC to display it again.
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This is what Iīve been using in my docker image to bring back MC when minimized. https://gitlab.com/shiomax/jrivermc-docker/-/blob/main/rootfs/etc/s6-overlay/scripts/prevent-minimize.sh?ref_type=heads
Might work for you too. If you are running wayland it wonīt work as most of the commands to interact with windows arenīt available / not the same / would need to find alternatives. It probably works for desktop environments other than JWM if you are running x11 instead of wayland.
%%MC_VERSION%% is a placeholder you have to replace with the mc version you are using (so 31).
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