<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 4, 2008 3:19 AM, Dave <<a href="mailto:dave@0bits.com">dave@0bits.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Michael T. Dean mtdean at <a href="http://thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">thirdcontact.com</a> wrote:<br> ><br> > With the exception of the very broken/unsupported "no window manager"<br>
> option, this page has some pretty OK solutions:<br> > <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login</a><br> ><br> > (And, before people start posting, "It works for me," just because<br>
> you haven't found what's broken doesn't mean it works. And, there's<br> > no benefit to running without a WM:<br> ><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Do_I_really_need_a_window_manager_for_a_frontend_only_box.3F" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Do_I_really_need_a_window_manager_for_a_frontend_only_box.3F</a><br>
.)<br><br></div>You may say that, but there is NO benefit to running a window manager<br>and there is NO focus issues. I've been running a pure frontend for 8<br>months without a window manager. Mythtv doesn't present multiple windows<br>
so you never lose focus. So if you're ONLY using a remote - i.e. not<br>using a keyboard to type into the myth web browser, etc, then there is<br>no use in running a window manager.<br><br>You can point to all the wiki's you want, but unless you can show me a<br>
use case which focus is lost without a windows manager running, then i<br>stand by my statement and so does my wife.</blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sometimes I ssh in and spawn an x-term to use via x11vnc. And, the XM Radio hack spawns new windows to show the song that's playing. Would both of these actions work w/o a WM?</div>
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Dave </div></div>