raoul Did you check your screen settings in OpenLP? We also upgraded how the screens are detected and configured in 2.9.4, and while we tried our best to migrate your configuration, due to the lack of information stored in 2.4.6, sometimes the configuration doesn't get migrated to 2.9.4.
BTW, I presume the white screen has the OpenLP logo on it? That's actually the display screen, and when your screens are not configured, OpenLP doesn't always perfectly detect which screen is which, and occasionally you'll be left with the display screen covering OpenLP's main window.
Did I check my screen settings?
Funny that you mention that! At almost every startup of OLP, there’s a message about a mismatch between screen settings and that OpenLP will try and select the correct settings but that I should update the screen settings. I have been meaning to ask about that message and where I am supposed to change the settings and to what. I didn’t think that it was high on my priority list, but you seem to think that it is. I’ll take your word over mine.
The white screen doesn’t always have the OLP logo on it but it often does. And I can ‘change’ the appearance of the white screen by pressing the escape key. It’s been a couple of weeks since I have had this occurrence, so I’m not certain of the exact sequence of events. The gap between occurrences is not due to OLP changing behaviour. It’s been due to my ill health other factors and therefore my inability to keep using OLP. As I’m the only person who does any projection, church has had to make do without it for the past few weeks.
I wasn’t sure if this was related or not, but I now think that it is. When OLP starts, I now almost always get the ‘where’s PowerPoint?’ screen show on the projection screen, in my case, the TV.
I said ‘almost always’ but I can’t remember a time that it didn’t happen. I’m just covering myself just in case there was one occasion that I haven’t remembered.
I haven’t been able to get around this one.
I know that I had special screen geometric coordinates set in 2.4.6 but they have not been transferred to the new version. I’m wondering if the white line at the top of the TV screen is a result of the coordinates not being there now.
Sorry about the novel.
Andrew