[mythtv-users] desktop environment efficiencies.

[Robert McNamara]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:00 PM, sylvain brejeon
<sylvain.brejeon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
>
> It does work. I also run the FE without any WM. I only start X.
>

Please don't top post on this list.  Again, just because the parts of
Myth that *you* use in myth work without a WM does not mean that all
of Myth does.  Running ratpoison (a few hundred k in memory) will NOT
impact performance.  At all.  People who won't run the simplest of
window managers because they think it provides a "performance
improvement" can feel free to break their setups-- but suggesting that
others do so is not helpful, and it would be really appreciated if you
didn't do so.

Robert