[mythtv-users] Program starttime in EPG?

Roger Siddons dizygotheca at ntlworld.com
Wed Feb 20 12:15:19 UTC 2013


On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:43:15 -0000, Joey Morris <rjmorris.list at zoho.com>  
wrote:

>> I Don't remember the correct way (if any) to modify a theme and have the
>> changes survive an upgrade, but I made the changes to schedule-ui.xml  
>> both
>> in the "Default" and the "Mythbuntu" directory. This did the trick on  
>> the
>> BE, but on the FE no luck.
>>
>> Has there been recent changes in the Mythbuntu theme that could explain
>> this? My FE is v. 25.30 while the BE is probably an older version of the
>> theme.
>
> The easiest way to modify a theme and have the changes survive an
> upgrade is to copy the theme to your ~/.mythtv/themes directory and give
> it a new name inside themeinfo.xml.
>
> Are you sure you edited the right theme on your FE? Do you already
> have one called Mythbuntu in ~/.mythtv/themes, but you edited the one
> in /usr/share/...? Are there any error messages in the frontend log?
>

I'm not absolutely sure but I thought the theme downloader only appeared  
in 0.26 (I can't seem to access Myth webserver at the moment.)
For 0.25 I thought you get automatic updates to /usr (as you infer) but  
your ~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu dir should be empty or not exist.

For each machine put your modified schedule-ui.xml into  
~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/schedule-ui.xml and it will automatically  
override the official version in /usr even after updates. There's no need  
to copy/change any other file. Obviously you'll miss any updates to all  
the scheduling screens defined by that xml so you may want to periodically  
diff your xml against the /usr one to pick up any updates.

If it doesn't appear to be working 'mythfrontend -v gui' will log the xml  
file that Myth is actually using.

For 0.26 the theme is downloaded directly to ~/.mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu  
and a different strategy is required (along the lines that Joey suggests).  
However I wasn't aware that theme updates were automatic: I believe any  
mods should persist until you manually update/upgrade the theme.


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