[mythtv-users] how do I run mythtv-setup in VNC

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/26/2008 05:42 AM, mat wrote:
>> My frontend is running at 1080i and when I use VNC I run the
>> mythtv-setup runs very slow and also as I'm running a virtual screen it
>> is not correct for my VNC session.
>>
>> Q.1 So can I run the mythtv-setup with different screen-size than the TV
>> out size? or "windowed" format independantly than the frontend window.
>> Q2. why is it so slow from virtual desktop?
> I setup my (headless) frontend using X over ssh, which is incredibly
> simple to do and it appeared to size myth to fit my client machine:
>
> ssh -X name at boxIP
>
> then just run mythtv-setup!
>
> awesome.

You probably want ssh -Y.  You'll get errors with -X and you lose some 
capability with -X.

Mike