[mythtv-users] Customizing the default menu

[Tom Lichti]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:26 PM,  <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
> I searched the archives and wiki and found info about how to customize
> menus. However these were generally focused on customizing an existing theme
> like DVR that is in the /usr/share/mythtv/themes directory. I can just
> duplicate those folders and make the changes I want. However, I use and am
> accustomed to the default menu theme which seems to reside in
> /usr/share/mythtv along with lots of other mythtv files. I just wanted to
> add a couple of buttons so I initially just backed up the one xml file I was
> changing and then made the changes in place. However, when I upgrade these
> changes get written over. If I want to make a custom menu based off of the
> default menu, what files do I need to copy out of the /usr/share/mythtv
> directory? Is it all of the xml files there, because there are quite a few?
> Alternately, since I am only changing a couple of entries in one of the
> menus is there someway for me to just change the default menu and have these
> changes remain persistant through upgrades?

It's been awhile since I did it, but I'm pretty sure you can override
menu files by placing your modified ones in the users ~/.mythtv
directory. Look in the Wiki, I'm sure it's there.

Tom