[mythtv-users] Gnome Vrs. KDE
Chris Petersen
lists at forevermore.net
Tue Jul 1 20:30:46 EDT 2003
> umm... i couldnt get myth to cover the stupid menu bar at the top of the
> screen in gnome and couldnt find a way to autohide it or anyway to turn
> off "always on top"... oh and mplayer wouldnt go over it either until i
> used gmplayer instead...
This is the main issue. Personally, I just installed blackbox (from
freshrpms) and then created a .Xclients to auto-rul irxevent and
mythfrontend:
!/bin/bash
#Start a window manager
blackbox &
#Start the IR event server
/usr/bin/irxevent &
#Start MythTV
/usr/bin/mythfrontend
using gdm's auto-login feature, the machine loads straight into mythfrontend.
> i have heard many folks use enlightenment and blackbox for window
> managers... i personally havent tried this yet.. but i would be real
> curious how easy it is to use a lightweight wm on my crappy TV..
um, with myth displaying fullscreen, there's no reason not to use a
lightweight WM - the fonts are still done by QT, so they should look the
same.
I'm a big gnome fan, but myth doesn't need any of the extras...
-Chris
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