[mythtv-users] Theme question
John P Poet
jppoet at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 17:41:39 UTC 2014
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net>
wrote:
>
> On 12/20/2014 10:53 PM, John P Poet wrote:
>
>
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net
>> <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a reason why I should expect that installing the same
>> version of Mythbuntu (12.04 and promptly upgrading Myth to 27.4)
>> from the same USB stick onto two different machines would product
>> a different selection of available themes in Setup -> Theme Chooser?
>>
>> On one machine, a Zotac ID36, I get what is apparently the full
>> catalog of themes, including MythCenter, MythCenter-Wide,
>> Arclight, Mythbuntu, Terra and several others. On the other
>> machine, a Zotac AD03, I get Mythbuntu, MythCenter,
>> Mythcenter-Wide and Terra, none of the others. I can re-install on
>> the AD03 and get exactly the same result so it shouldn't be a
>> matter of a botched install. Is there something in the install
>> process that prevents certain themes from being installed on
>> certain hardware?
>>
>> Incidentally, prior to upgrading the MythTV from 0.25 to 0.27 all
>> front ends presented the same themes in Theme Chooser.
>>
>>
>> It is probably a permission issue. Make sure that the ~/.mythtv
>> directory (and all of it sub-directories) are writable by whatever user(s)
>> is running mythbackend and mythfrontend.
>>
>> John
>>
>> ***
> Different themes can have different permissions?
>
>
MythCenter, Mythcenter-Wide and Terra ship with myth by default. Since
you are running Mythbuntu, I am guessing that is being included by default
as well. All other themes are downloaded "on demand". I am guessing that
myth does not have permission to download the requested themes to the
directories it wants to download them to.
Assuming your myth user is 'mythtv', try something like:
$ sudo chown -R mythtv:mythtv /home/mythtv
$ sudo chmod -R ug+rwX /home/mythtv
and see if that fixes the problem.
John
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