[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 14.04 and unwanted pop-ups

[Will Dormann]

On 5/5/14, 7:12 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 18:29 -0400, Will Dormann wrote:
>> Since switching to Mythbuntu 14.04, I've noticed the system
>> behaving less like a MythTV appliance, and more like an Ubuntu
>> system that happens to have MythTV installed on it.
> 
> But are you using it as an "appliance" (set-top-box, or STB as I
> like to call it) or as a "Ubuntu desktop"?  i.e. is it attached to
> and dedicated to your television or does it sit on your desk and
> you do other "computing" type stuff on it also?


Hi Brian,

It's plugged into a TV and I use it for MythTV and pretty much nothing
else.   It doesn't have a keyboard or a mouse.   Well, I've plugged a
mouse into it recently to address the recent windows that have been
coming up.   And that annoyance was what triggered me to start this
thread.  :)

The first MythTV box that I built was *all* from scratch, as mythtv
wasn't in any distro's package repository yet.  Heavily customized all
the way down to a custom patched kernel.  But as time has gone on,
I've been gravitating toward keeping things as close to a stock
MythBuntu as possible.  The idea being to increase the chances that
MythTV and/or OS updates don't break my setup.  (My first box got
"painted into a corner" where it just couldn't be updated anymore
without redoing everything from scratch)

My hope was that Mythbuntu was something that could be used as a STB
without any OS-level tweaking, and for the most part 10.10 fulfilled
that need.   The impression that I'm getting is at least from 12.04
on, that's not the case.  For example, while xfce isn't super heavy as
window managers go, if you never see it, what's the point in having it
in the first place?  It seems that Mythbuntu gets you almost all of
the way to a functional STB, but not quite there.

I think the best bet is going to be for me to go somewhere in between
the extremes of "everything from scratch" and "don't touch a thing."
 I'd probably be nice to see Mythbuntu eventually incorporate these
"last mile" tweaks to get to STB land.  I'm not sure if any Mythbuntu
devs lurk on here, but I can post what I end up changing when I get
around to it.


-WD