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

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 08:18 -0400, Will Dormann wrote: 
> 
> Hi Brian,

Hi,

> It's plugged into a TV and I use it for MythTV and pretty much nothing
> else.

So an STB then.

> 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.

Indeed.  Standing on the shoulders of giants as it were.

> My hope was that Mythbuntu was something that could be used as a STB
> without any OS-level tweaking,

Indeed.  I would love that also.  I have suggested many times to them
that they ought to have a "mythbuntu-stb" package or something that
customizes a Mythbuntu installation to work like an STB but I don't
think that's gone much of anywhere.  Likely I owe them that contribution
given the use I have had from it but TBH, I have never felt warm enough
reception to the suggestion that it would amount to anything if I did
contribute.  Maybe things have changed.

> 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?

Indeed.  There really should be no (other than mythfrontend) windows to
manage.  IMHO.  As I had said, the dev team will disagree with you and
using no window manager is outside of the "supported configuration" box.

> It seems that Mythbuntu gets you almost all of
> the way to a functional STB, but not quite there.

Indeed.  It needs a custom init script for the frontend that just starts
X and mythfrontend.

Cheers,
b.

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