<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:18 PM, John Marshall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@marshallparty.org" target="_blank">mythtv@marshallparty.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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However, my son now has SteamOS installed on his machine for gaming and<br>
I would like to run Myth frontend on that OS instead of using a second<br>
machine or dual-boot into OpenSuse to get MythTV.<br>
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Just to give you an alternative, I use Mythbuntu and have Steam integrated into Myth's menu. I just installed the Steam deb file and then added a menu item in mainmenu.xml to launch it*. If he is usually gaming then the extra step of getting to Steam from Myth might be a pain, but it might be easier to manage/support Myth on Mythbuntu than SteamOS. Steam itself should be about the same between each. Also, I don't know if you can launch anything from within Steam, so to start Mythfrontend on SteamOS might require you to exit and start Myth from the desktop. In my setup I can solely rely on my remote and xbox 360 controller.<br>
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* I'd be remiss not to mention this caveat - some games refuse to start when I launch Steam from Mythfrontend. They start launching but just get stuck at a black screen and I have to kill the game process (Steam is fine). They work fine when Steam is started from the desktop, even if Mythfrontend is running. I haven't yet figured out the issue, but I'm pretty sure some of the games that are afflicted used to work fine. I had to kill something once for different reasons and I think something might have gotten borked, but I can't say for sure.<div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I can get half life to launch from the main menu of mythtv. But it always hangs when closing.<br></div><div> <br></div></div></div></div>