[mythtv-users] Frontend with no window manager?

Josh Burks dotnofoolin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 18:04:24 EDT 2005


On 10/13/05, Peter Loron <peterl at standingwave.org> wrote:
> Question for the hive mind: can you run a front-end with no window
> manager? I've got an Xbox frontend, and it takes bloody forever to start
> up Xebian (1.1.1 in my case) and then launch Myth. Doing things in Myth
> is sloooooow, especially when it needs to spawn mplayer to watch a
> video, etc. I'm assuming most of that slowness is releated to the lack
> of RAM and the copious amounts of swapping that are consequently going on.
>
> Can one run the frontend with no WM to save RAM? If so, can somebody
> point me to the step-by -step? I searched on gossamer, but was unable to
> come up with any definitive answers.

I'm not that familiar with Xebian, so I don't know what's possible.
What I'd do is keep a window manager (the consensus seems that not
have one is a bigger problem due to focus issues) and try out some
lightweight WM's. I suggest ratpoison, it doesn't get any lighter than
that.

Josh


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