[mythtv-users] Running Myth without a window manager

Pierre-Olivier Bouchard petecool at vl.videotron.ca
Wed Mar 26 02:23:04 UTC 2003


On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:07:40 -0500
Jonathan Kolb <jkolb-mythtv at greyshift.net> wrote:

> Is this possible?  I've tried running X with just mythfrontend in my
> .xinitrc, and it seems to have some focus issues when I leave a module and
> return to mythfrontend.  I'd really like to be able to run Myth without a
> window manager if possible.
> 

You could instead use very lightweight window managers. I used with success ratpoison and oroborus, and evilwm should do fine too. And there are many many others I don't remember about, that would work great, be unobstrusive and eat very little resources.


Pete


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