[mythtv-users] Chat client for MythTV

[Jesse Guardiani]

Josh Burks wrote:
> On 3/1/06, Jake <jakeisawake at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> i wrote a plugin which did this as well and i used it for the good
>> part of a year but when i moved i quit using it since we have multiple
>> people here with gaim and the broadcasting to all the mythfrontends
>> was kinda annoying.
>>
>> i do have a friend that uses it very successfully and as far as i know
>> it has never crashed.  actually, my friend agreed to let me convert
>> her desktop to linux just so that she could use this plugin.
>>
>> i initially wrote it in perl but switched to tcl when they
>> discontinued the perl interface to gaim.
>>
>> i'll look for it and post the plugin to the list if there's any interest.
>>     
>
> Why not just add a menu item that shells out to gaim, then use alt+tab
> to switch between myth and gaim? Works great for me since I have a
> wireless keyboard and I'm running KDE. Not sure if alt+tab works with
> other window managers (except Gnome, I know that works).
>   

Is anyone using xosd or similar for this sort of thing? The fact that 
mythosd doesn't work in the menus
seems like a huge problem to me. I'd like to send OSD info to my 
frontend too, but I want to
see it all the time, not just when I'm watching TV.

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net