[mythtv-users] modernizing mythtv

Will Dormann wdormann at gmail.com
Sat May 10 21:25:36 UTC 2014


On 5/10/14, 4:37 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Will Dormann <wdormann at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/10/14, 12:58 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>> I have completely headless BE, I upgrade the kernels and run
>>>> setup remotely no problem. No X installed.
>>> 
>>> You're sure you don't have a 'hidden' X-server running on your 
>>> backend to facilitate?
>> 
>> 
>> I'm also curious about this.   mythbackend has several X library 
>> dependencies, and therefore I would think that somewhere along the
>> way you'd run into trouble if they were not present.
> 
> As has already been pointed out, some people who haven't come across
> it before may be confused by "client" and "server" in the X
> environment.


Thanks for the clarification.  I think the confusion came in where the
OP said "No X installed."   Which I interpreted as meaning neither
server nor client components; i.e. no libx11.  A more precise statement
perhaps would be "No X server installed"



-WD


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