[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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