[mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with "ratpoison" instead of kde

[Steve Adeff]

On Sunday 30 October 2005 15:36, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> >>>  	Exactly.  Ratpoison is the closest thing you can do to run without
> >>> a window manager while still running a window manager.  It doesn't draw
> >>> any decorations on the screen.  All it does is manage the focus of any
> >>> applications.  I tried hard to run without a WM, but mplayer focus
> >>> killed me.  I've been ratpoisoning for 18 months now with a raw X
> >>> startup script similar to what you mentioned.... although I may try to
> >>> modify the implementation to use init to respawn.  Been thinking about
> >>> that for awhile.
> >>>
> >>> -Cory
> >
> > have you tried the "-fstype" in mplayer? it should be able to fix any
> > focus issues with whatever WM you use.
> >
> > Steve
>
>  	I haven't, but it's something I wasn't aware of... good thing to
> remember in my "bag-o-tricks."  I actually have another good reason for
> ratpoison... no monitor (only NTSC television) on the local computer.  If
> I need to fix something, I need a terminal.  Console mode doesn't work
> (only 480i, not VGA works on the NTSC TV).... so, I use ratpoison to fire
> up an xterm.
>
>  	... and YES, with a decent tvout, a 80x24 xterm is quite readable
> on a TV.
>
> -Cory

ah, well, there is that too ;-)  Do you have another linux computer you could 
SSH into your mythtv box with? Minus a network problem you can run anything 
from the MythTV box and have it output to the other linux machine.

Steve