Re: HOWTO for RPi4 and -current?

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 12:03:47PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 02:20:37AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > but issues with the window manager in use, or, possibly, its
> > configuration.
> 
> Thanks. Quite likely. I use ratpoison with quite aggressive 'rudeness'
> setting (one that prevents most of the popups from stealing the focus
> while you might be - say - typing, particularly something like Enter key
> when a popup is asking you whether you want to reboot!). Will experiment
> and share the observations.
> 
> But I'd still say it's weird on the OS' part (or hardware's?). If the
> focus didn't switch to the player, it should not grab the screen.

Updates:

- It wasn't ratpoison's fault. The behavior was same and weird on lxde.

- BTW I switched to vlc and looking at the CPU usage, looks like it is
  using the GPU. So far the thermometer symbol has not popped up.

  It does not make sense for Raspberry to continue to spend effort in a
  media player when there are so many out there. omxplayer may be kept as
  a reference implementation for GPU usage.

- This was on Raspbian. I do not know whether vlc is available on NetBSD
  on RPI and whether it uses GPU.

-- 
Mayuresh