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Theme chooser not working in 31
Hi,

I installed ver 31 today in Ubuntu 20.04. Combined frontend + backend.
Installation went reasonably well and mythtv appears to be working as
intended. Except that I cannot change the graphical theme!

Selecting any of the graphical themes using the theme chooser does not
change the theme. The frontend screen momentarily disappears then reappears
a second later (at the root menu), with the same theme (MythCenter-wide).

I've been using Terra for many years and I want to use it again...

Scanning the frontend log gives me no hints:

Jun 14 22:14:54 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythmainwindow.cpp:2614 (customEvent) Updating the frontend idle time to:
90 mins
Jun 14 22:14:54 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: N CoreContext
mythcorecontext.cpp:1822 (ReInitLocale) Setting QT default locale to en_AU
Jun 14 22:14:54 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythmainwindow.cpp:1014 (Init) Using Frameless Window
Jun 14 22:14:54 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythmainwindow.cpp:1030 (Init) Using Full Screen Window
Jun 14 22:14:54 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythdisplay.cpp:230 (SetWidget) Display: Have main widget
Jun 14 22:14:54 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythdisplay.cpp:234 (SetWidget) Display: Have main window
Jun 14 22:14:54 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythdisplay.cpp:344 (GetDesiredScreen) Display: Found screen 'HDMI-0'
Jun 14 22:14:54 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythdisplay.cpp:1004 (WaitForNewScreen) Display: Waiting for new screen
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: W CoreContext
mythdisplay.cpp:1008 (operator()) Display: Timed out waiting for new screen
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythmainwindow.cpp:1062 (Init) UI Screen Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
opengl/mythrenderopengl.cpp:398 (Init) OpenGL: Initialised MythRenderOpenGL
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
opengl/mythrenderopengl.cpp:399 (Init) OpenGL: Using full range output
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythuihelper.cpp:762 (PruneCacheDir) MythUIHelper: Pruning cache directory:
/home/justin/.mythtv/cache/remotecache
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythuihelper.cpp:819 (PruneCacheDir) MythUIHelper: Kept 0 files, deleted 0
files, stat error on 0 files
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythuihelper.cpp:762 (PruneCacheDir) MythUIHelper: Pruning cache directory:
/home/justin/.mythtv/cache/thumbnails
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
mythuihelper.cpp:819 (PruneCacheDir) MythUIHelper: Kept 38 files, deleted 0
files, stat error on 0 files
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
devices/mythcecadapter.cpp:144 (Open) CECAdapter: Using physical address
4.5.0.0 from EDID
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: E CoreContext
devices/mythcecadapter.cpp:173 (Open) CECAdapter: Failed to load libcec.
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: W CoreContext
mythpainter.cpp:35 (Teardown) MythPainter: 71 images not yet de-allocated.
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
opengl/mythpainteropengl.cpp:74 (ClearCache) Clearing OpenGL painter cache.
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: I CoreContext
opengl/mythrenderopengl.cpp:147 (~MythRenderOpenGL) OpenGL:
MythRenderOpenGL closing
Jun 14 22:14:55 elzo mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[4866]: N CoreContext
main.cpp:1224 (RunMenu) Found mainmenu.xml for theme 'MythCenter-wide'

Thanks,
Justin.
Re: Theme chooser not working in 31 [ In reply to ]
On Sunday, 14 June 2020 15:18:35 BST Justin Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed ver 31 today in Ubuntu 20.04. Combined frontend + backend.
> Installation went reasonably well and mythtv appears to be working as
> intended. Except that I cannot change the graphical theme!
>
> Selecting any of the graphical themes using the theme chooser does not
> change the theme. The frontend screen momentarily disappears then reappears
> a second later (at the root menu), with the same theme (MythCenter-wide).
>
> I've been using Terra for many years and I want to use it again...
>
> Scanning the frontend log gives me no hints:
> ...
> Thanks,
> Justin.

I don't know if this is still valid but earlier versions of MythTV needed the same theme to be
installed twice, once after the other, before it would 'stick'.


Regards, Steve Goodey
Colchester, England
mailto://steve@goodey.org
Registered Linux User #372670 http://counter.li.org

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