[mythtv-users] desktop environment efficiencies.

[sylvain brejeon]

It does work. I also run the FE without any WM. I only start X.

2009/11/13 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > On 11/12/2009 04:57 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:45 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What would be most efficient, however, would be to use something other
> >>> than a desktop environment--some lightweight window manager like
> Fluxbox or,
> >>> even better, RatPoison.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Or if it's a dedicated FE, no window manager at all.
> >>
> >> Every time I suggest it at least one person tells me that it won't work.
> >> But I have been running this way since 0.19 and it's always been
> >> absolutely hiccup free in terms of window placement and focus.
> >>
> >> Dedicated FEs, IMHO and experience don't need a WM.
> >
> > It won't work.
> >
> > MythTV itself uses multiple windows.
>
> Is that new in 0.22? I always understood that no WM was needed if you
> weren't shelling out other programs like mplayer/xine etc. (Not that I
> have ever tried)
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