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diff --git a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst index 0a993d412e..ca1e87105e 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst @@ -610,6 +610,39 @@ PROTOCOLS ``memory://data`` Use the ``data`` part as source data. +PSEUDO GUI MODE +=============== + +mpv has no official GUI, other than the OSC (`ON SCREEN CONTROLLER`_), which +is not a full GUI and is not meant to be. However, to compensate for the lack +of expected GUI behavior, mpv will in some cases start with some settings +changed to behave slightly more like a GUI mode. + +Currently this happens only in the following cases: + +- if started using the ``mpv.desktop`` file on Linux (e.g. started from menus + or file associations provided by desktop environments) +- if started from explorer.exe on Windows (technically, if it was started on + Windows, and all of the stdout/stderr/stdin handles are unset) +- manually adding ``--profile=pseudo-gui`` to the command line + +This mode implicitly adds ``--profile=pseudo-gui`` to the command line, with +the ``pseudo-gui`` profile being predefined with the following contents: + +:: + + [pseudo-gui] + terminal=no + force-window=yes + idle=once + +This follows the mpv config file format. To customize pseudo-GUI mode, you can +put your own ``pseudo-gui`` profile into your ``mpv.conf``. This profile will +enhance the default profile, rather than overwrite it. + +The profile always overrides other settings in ``mpv.conf``. + + .. include:: options.rst .. include:: ao.rst |