[mythtv] Requirements on a window manager?

Rob Hillis rob at hillis.dyndns.org
Sun Jan 2 02:46:04 EST 2005


Mark Frey wrote:

> I just updated to the latest cvs and found that the frontend is now in 
> a window rather than being in full screen as it was before I updated. 
> I don't have the option "Display Frontend in a window" checked. I have 
> been using twm as my window manager because this box is used only for 
> Myth and so I never bothered to install anything else. I assume that 
> this new behavior is just something to do with twm being an obsolete 
> window manager. My question is: What are the requirements on a window 
> manager such that it will work with Myth? Could anyone suggest a 
> stripped down window manager that works for them with Myth? As few 
> dependencies as humanly possible would be good. 

Theoretically, no Window manager is required.  I use daemontools to keep 
my Myth frontend running (since I used to have problems with my video 
card that caused the frontend to segfault regularly) and all my 
.xsession does is to turn off screen blanking and exec's mythfrontend.



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