[mythtv-users] Can't access setup after switching to Minimalist-wide on non wide screen

hary wilke harywilke at yahoo.com
Fri May 13 08:10:34 UTC 2005


On May 13, 2005, at 3:41 AM, Matt wrote:

> On 5/12/05, hary wilke <harywilke at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I was playing around with themes today and i got myself in a bit of a
>> quandary. As the title suggests i changed my theme to Minimalist-wide
>> and am stuck on it. After checking out the theme, i went up to the
>> top menu and can only see "Watch TV - Media Library - Manage Recor -
>> Inform Center - Optical Disks - Phone" but i can't see "Setup"!!!!
>> when anything other than "Watch TV" is selected a little down arrow
>> appears where the first item of a second row of icons would start,
>> but i can't seem to be able to go down. if i arrow key right of
>> "Phone" i'm sent back to "Watch TV" and the up and down keys don't do
>> diddly for me. I'm feeling a bit silly right about now. Is there
>> another way to change the theme? i'm guessing that the setting is
>> somewhere in the database eh? any hints on how to reset it to one of
>> the default themes?
>>
>> -hary
>> stuck in a corner
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I did the same thing yesterday while just messing around.  What I had
> to do was edit the entry in the database and restart mythfrontend.  I
> use myphpadmin to edit the database.  Edit "Theme" in the settings
> table to something like "Blue".  That'll fix it.  If you have multiple
> frontends, make sure you edit the right one.
>
> Matt
> _______________________________________________


Thanks Matt that worked great.
Here are the details of how i fixed it for the next person who finds  
themselves in this situation and has about as much MySQL knowledge as  
me and the chair i'm sitting on and doesn't have myphpadmin up and  
running. note the lowercase 'b' in 'blue'. I think this would reset  
the theme for all of your frontends, but then again if you have a  
bunch of frontends, you probably know all this already.

[hary at localhost]$ mysql -umythtv mythconverg -p
Enter password:
mysql> UPDATE settings SET data='blue' WHERE value = 'Theme';
mysql> exit;


-hary


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