[mythtv-users] Ratpoison overscan

[Darren Hart]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 07:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:24:05AM -0400, papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu wrote:
> 
> > It runs bare X with ratpoison to reduce the overhead of
> > GDM/KDM and all that unnecessary jazz.  If I could figure out
> > this ratpoison thing, things would be good!
> 
> Maybe I'm just being dim, but why do you even need a windows
> manager?

When running external players (ie xine or mplayer for DVDs) a lot of
people on this list have reported loss of focus problems if they don't
use a wm.  If all you run is mythfrontend, then I can't see any need for
a wm.

> 
> My myth box works fine without one.