[mythtv-users] My experience with the ratpoison window manager

[stan at stanandliz.net]

Sorry to sound confused, but why do you need a window manager at all?

I have a boot script that runs the following command on startup:

startx /usr/bin/mythfrontend &

> Richard Bronosky <mythtv at bronosky.com> says:
>> I'm thinking that Ion3 is an obvious choice for a WM on a set top
>> box.  There really is no point in a desktop or unused space on a
>> Television screen.
>
> I completely agree. That's why I use Ratpoison
> (<URL:http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/>), the window manager without
> any visible windows! Rather, each window takes up the full screen,
> with no decorations of any kind.
>
> My ~/.ratpoisonrc file:
>
>     escape F12
>     deffont *-lucidatypewriter-*-*-*-*-34-* # I have a 47" LCD, you see
>     bind c exec rxvt -fn "*-lucidatypewriter-*-*-*-*-34-*"
>     bind Left prev
>     bind Right next
>
>
> My ~/.Xclients and ~/.Xclients-ratpoison files:
>
>     #!/bin/sh
>
>     exec ~/.Xclients-ratpoison
>
> ---------------
>
>     #!/bin/sh
>
>     [Snipped]
>
>     ratpoison &
>     urxvt -fn "*-lucidatypewriter-*-*-*-*-34-*" -sl 65535 \
>     -e nice -n 19 tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log &
>     urxvt -fn "*-lucidatypewriter-*-*-*-*-34-*" -sl 65535 \
>     -e mythfrontend -v playback
>
> I have bound one of the editable buttons on my MX-500 remote control
> to F12. This way, I can push that button then left or right on the
> directional pad to flip between windows (I have one set up to display
> the contents of mythbackend.log, and another to show the console
> output from mythfrontend).
>
> This setup has worked perfectly for ten months. The only oddity is
> that sometimes, when mythfrontend pops up that little window that says
> that for one reason or another it can't talk to mythbackend, I can't
> click the "Ok" button with my remote. I'm not sure if this is a focus
> issue because this only happens some of the time the little window
> appears. In such a case I simply restart mythfrontend with the remote
> button I've wired to call the following script if pushed twice within
> three seconds' time (note that this is an improved version of what
> appears at
> <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/208553#208553>):
>
> #!/bin/bash
> PROG=mythfrontend
> STATUS=`ps -e | grep $PROG | grep -v grep | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
>
> if [ `echo $DISPLAY | grep -c ":0"` -ge 1 ]
> then
>     if [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
>     then
>         ( $PROG & )
>     else
>
>         if [ -a /tmp/mythpowerbutton-off ]
>         then
>                 touch /tmp/mythpowerbutton-on;
>                 exit;
>         else
>                 touch /tmp/mythpowerbutton-off;
>                 sleep 3;
>                 if [ -a /tmp/mythpowerbutton-on ]
>                 then
>                     rm -rf /tmp/mythpowerbutton-o* && killall $PROG
>                 fi
>                 rm -rf /tmp/mythpowerbutton-o*
>         fi
>         rm -rf /tmp/mythpowerbutton-o*
>     fi
> fi
> exit 0
>
> Yeechang, who unsurprisingly also uses GNU screen
> --
> Yeechang Lee <ylee at pobox.com> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US
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