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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 26 for Linux => Topic started by: Belarathon on April 19, 2020, 09:10:02 am
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Greetings:
Over the last few weeks, I've installed Media Center on a number of distros, including Manjaro, MX, K/L/Ubuntu and Mint.
Once I ditched integrated graphics for a dedicated card, it turned out to be an experience comparable to the performance I enjoy in the Windows environment. However, there's been a recurring theme in each installation: Let's say you're in theater mode, watching a video, and you hit the back button to return to the prior screen, listing any number of videos: Once the playing now screen goes the the previous screen, there's a small video preview screen in the upper right corner, and it steals focus from both my remote, and the PC keyboard. One must use a mouse to get focus off of it. I couldn't get a screenshot of the bug, but the screen shows two items focused in this situation - both the video that was just viewed, and the small preview screen. You can tell they are both focused because there is a pane of faux glass (Obsidian theme) surrounding both items. In frustration, I finally restored my Windows installation, and in Windows, the preview does not steal focus. Kind of a deal breaker for me and Linux, and i really do want to make the switch.
Recommendations?
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Literally nobody has encountered this? I navigate to a place that I simply can't get out of without a mouse. Is no one else using Media Center in Linux as a "ten-foot" interface? Would it be possible for me to edit the skin to not show the preview window?
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It might depend on the desktop environment you're using (e.g. GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, etc.). I know there were focus issues with KDE Plasma in the past.
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It wasn't the desktop environment; it was the distro! I recall reading that Media Center was developed and tested using Debian, so I installed Buster this evening. Low and behold, the issue is gone. All Debian based distros had the issue, except Debian.
Correction: It seems to have been Wine. I installed it on Debian and focus was being stolen again. Uninstalled it, and all was fine. At least, that seems to be the case.
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Nah, that wasn't it. It seems to be a hit and miss thing. As a workaround, I have toggled to a different list view, that of the flying horizontal thumbnails. Not as useful as the other view, but certainly is impressive to see.
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Trying to reproduce this, how do you go "back"? Can this be done with a keyboard? I hit the back arrow and it just goes back in the movie.
If I can get the window to show up like you do I have an idea about what's going on.