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Jarod Wilson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wednesday 09 March 2005 19:49, James Armstrong wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mar 9, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wednesday 09 March 2005 18:21, Bryan Halter wrote:
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<pre wrap="">How else are you going to run the setup utility? Until someone
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something like an ncurses-based setup utility, I think folks are
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<pre wrap="">Would a ncurses based mythsetup be out of the question?
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<pre wrap="">That was my suggestion for a no-X, no-Qt setup util.
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<pre wrap="">I run the setup program on my headless backend all the time. I just ssh
into it from my frontend and run setup. The setup program is displayed
on the frontend using X but is actually run from the backend and
modifies the backend's settings.
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I know, I do the same. The question was why X and Qt even have to be on the
backend though.
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When you run an X application remotely, it is the GUI output that gets
displayed at the local machine. In other words, if you ssh into the
backend from a frontend (or any *nix box) and run mythsetup, mythsetup
runs on the backend (ie it's using the backend's CPU cycles), but the
output is displayed on the frontend.<br>
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Hope this explains why you'll need X and Qt on the backend.<br>
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<pre wrap="">If you have a headless backend then
you must have a frontend running on X, unless it is on OSX then I don't
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Run X11 on the Mac and do the exact same thing.
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Just my 2 cents worth.<br>
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