[mythtv-users] Theme question

[Anthony Giggins]

On 22 December 2014 at 04:00, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:

> That explains everything, thanks.
>
> mike
>
> On 12/21/2014 09:41 AM, John P Poet wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net
>> <mailto: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>
>>         <mailto: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
>>
>>
Another thing I noticed is that not all themes refresh the downloadable
theme on entering the the theme chooser.

try hitting Menu and selecting the "refresh downloadable themes" option

Cheers,

Anthony
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