Pi 4 display issue with lr-genesis-plus-gx
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@mitu said in Anyway to turn off the footer when you start a game?:
You need to disable also the Graphics Widgets option, which is right below the Onscreen Notifications option.
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@Clyde Actually, that might not work. I re-tested this briefly and it doesn't seem to disable all the new-style notifications - I think that's what @GreenHawk84 is reporting.
It could be there's more than 1 configuration option that would need to be toggled - but from a cursory inspection of the code it might not be possible without disabling the new notification style entirely at build time.
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@mitu At least it worked for me. When I disable Onscreen Notifications and Graphics Widgets, I get no messages in the games at all. I could check this more thoroughly for other options possibly involved when I get home.
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Ok, I re-tested it and @Clyde is right, it should work - it's possible to fallback to the previous notifications' style without disabling the notifications, though I couldn't make it work via the RGUI on the first try
@GreenHawk84 Try adding this to your
/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg:menu_enable_widgets = "false" -
Maybe I should've mentioned that I'm using the XMB menu, although that shouldn't change the options rather than arrange them differently, if I'm not mistaken.
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Confirming setting Widgets to OFF and saving Core Options does not disable them:
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As far as I understand it, you have to disable both to get no notifications. Disabling the widgets alone will only reset their style to the more simple one of previous RetroArch versions.
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@Clyde these options do nothing for me. I get widgets either way and exposure to the pillar boxing bug. I am not sure why mine would be different than anyone else, I do not mess with settings in general, it's all defaulted.
I will have to try Mitu's suggested modification of the Retroarch.cfg.
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@GreenHawk84 Maybe you have a saved core configuration or override in place that negates the options which (you think) you are saving? See Config Hierarchy for the places to look for additional config files.
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@GreenHawk84 Oh, and the notification settings don't work immediately, but only after you exit and re-enter RetroArch.
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@Clyde just went in and confirmed for sake of argument that none of my .cfg files have any setting regarding On-screen Notifications set to override "On." I actually went in just now and set both of these options to Off and saved a Core override AND a Game (After Burner II) override. Upon restarting these settings magically set back to "On." I have never touched the On-Screen Notification settings in the years using Retropie until this issue came up.
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I don't want to be preachy, but if you set these two options somewhere™ (RGUI/XMB or a config file) and the next time they're gone, I would bet my money on either a config/override file you missed, or – less likely – that your config file can't be saved for some reason (e.g. file permissions or a dying SD card that set itself to read-only).
I think that the other possibility, a bug of such a scope, would be widely known by now, except for one that would only occur in rare circumstances which you're very unlucky to meet with your system's configuration.
If you really checked every of these possibilities, alas, I'm out of ideas. 😕
Can you save other options persistantly?
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@Clyde yes, whenever I save overlays to a specific game it holds. Are there any files you would like to see? I can add them to my OneDrive and link here.
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@mitu I placed the following into my opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg as you said:
menu_enable_widgets = "false"Looks like anything that does not load with a Game Override allows it and does not use Widgets. Anything with a Game Override is still using Widgets. The only reason I use Game Overrides is to apply specific Overlay images.
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@GreenHawk84 please run in verbose mode, then upload /dev/shm/runcommand.log, and then all the various config files and overrides referred to within.
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Hopefully I got everything you need to analyze, please let me know otherwise:
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@GreenHawk84
you havemenu_enable_widgets = "true"in your alien storm game override.i really don't like the way retroarch handles overrides - they contain every setting, rather than those that have changed. i think there's an outstanding issue for this somewhere, but i can't find it.
in the meantime, i would probably want to create overrides by hand.
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@dankcushions I hope this can be improved. I will try to fix the Game Overrides.
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@dankcushions you mentioned making Game Overrides by hand, can I just delete everything in the Game Override except what the overlay is set to? Literally just one line of change?
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@GreenHawk84 yeah that should work
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