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

[Christopher Kerr]

On 6 May 2014 01:09, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 13:48 +0000, Leo Butler wrote:
> >> I run 12.04 ubuntu with the myth packages as a frontend (not
> >> mythbuntu) on an old thinkpad t43, and 99.9% of the time I don't need
> >> a windowmanager, but for that 0.1% of the time I am glad I do.
> >
> > What is a specific example of that 0.1%?  I keep seeing the hand-waving
> > about needing a window manager but nobody ever produces a specific
> > use-case when they have needed it.
>


> We'd probably put an *Advanced* warning
> on it since networking and such would need to be configured manually.
>

 And herein is an answer to Brian's question - sometimes the GUI is rather
handy. Someday I'll get around to putting all the myth stuff on it's own
subnet so nothing I do in the rest of the house affects it, but right now
the simple truth is that the mythboxen are appliances that live in an
unstable environment, and reconfiguration is pretty frequent. By definition
that kind of reconfiguration is difficult to do over ssh.

Also, sometimes you just want to do something that MythTV doesn't support
elegantly, like playing media off a USB mass storage device.

- Chris
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20140506/e8c00247/attachment.html>