[vlc-devel] Problem: VLC catches mouse when Video is displayed on another screen

Rafaël Carré funman at videolan.org
Sat Jul 28 09:34:37 CEST 2007


Hello,

what if you disable xvideo overlay ?
or maybe start it in window mode, and then make the video output go fullscreen ?

2007/7/28, CyrusQ at gmx.de <CyrusQ at gmx.de>:
> Dear VLC developers,
>
> I have configured my xorg.conf so that I have one LCD where I'm working on and right of this screen I have a TV where I want to watch movies with VLC. It is configured in a way that the mouse stays in X display :0.0 (LCD) and not moves to :0.1 (TV) when it goes on the right side of the screen.
>
> I start VLC with
>
> #vlc --xvideo-display :0.1 --fullscreen --no-wx-embed
>
> so that the controls are stying on my LCD. In this way I can start the movies by sitting in front of the LCD screen while others can watch the movies on the TV screen in another room.
>
> The problem is that my mouse dissappears on my LCD as soon as the movie is being played. The mouse then seems to appear on the TV screen.
>
> Is this a bug? How can I be sure to stay with have full controls on my LCD screen?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
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