From ea11b09bc3a3558dfb3210f702b83b60cc27d716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:59:34 +0200 Subject: manpage: mention how pseudo-gui mode is enabled on win32 --- DOCS/man/mpv.rst | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst index caf8592b7f..ca1e87105e 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/mpv.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/mpv.rst @@ -618,8 +618,13 @@ 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 if started using the ``mpv.desktop`` file in Linux -(like started from menus or file associations provided by desktop environments). +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: -- cgit v1.2.3