[mythtv-users] Frontend auto login keyboard issues in mplayer

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/07/2006 03:55 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 4/7/06, Adam Prentice <advertise at linkclicks.com> wrote:
>   
>> From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>>> On 04/04/2006 05:12 AM, Adam Prentice wrote:
>>>> As per the instructions at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login and using option 1 I set up my FC4 box to automatically login to mythfrontend.  I can navigate around mythtv using hte keyboard however when I play video I lose keyboard controls.   If I have my system set to boot into KDE and then run mythfrontend my keyboard functions work in all programs.  Has anyone else experienced this?
>>> Did you by any chance take that page's /very bad/ advice on setting up X
>>> to run without a window manager?
>> I tried it both with and without fvwm.  Do you have a better way to have a
>> clean looking and fast boot up?    Going through the KDE kind of slows thing
>> down and doesn't look great.
> I'm running sans window manager without problems, but I use a remote
> and not a keyboard which may change behaviour. I was just pointing out
> that it is not necessarily /very bad/ advice.

It is if you use windows (i.e. more than one window).  Window manager = 
something to manage windows.

Mike