[mythtv-users] mythfrontend and Gnome or mythfrontend sans window manager with firefox?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 10/10/2010 13:57, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/9/2010 14:03, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>> Side question: I also thought perhaps run without a window manager and
>>> just having firefox as an option on the menu since that's really all
>>> they would be using other than MythTV on that computer. Has anyone
>>> tried this?
>> Even if you want to add menu entries for your other applications, and run
>> without Gnome, you still want some form of window manager to handle the Z
>> level and focus.
> yea, I thought of that after sending the email. decided to stick with
> having it run Gnome, especially now that Nick helped me get it to show
> without the panels. The machine has enough RAM for it and at worse she
> has to click the mouse to run Myth again. I may also put a button on
> the remote to relaunch Myth if it's not running

If this is a kitchen frontend, have you given any thought to making it a 
touchscreen and omitting a mouse?  There are programs that you can use 
to turn mouse gestures into keypresses, or you could look into getting 
Myth's own mouse gesture support working.

Also, if you are only looking to provide Firefox, you might try 
MythBrowser instead.  In 0.23+, it's a fairly capable Webkit-based browser.