<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 May 2014 01:09, Thomas Mashos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@mashos.com" target="_blank">thomas@mashos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Brian J. Murrell <<a href="mailto:brian@interlinx.bc.ca">brian@interlinx.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 13:48 +0000, Leo Butler wrote:<br>
>> I run 12.04 ubuntu with the myth packages as a frontend (not<br>
>> mythbuntu) on an old thinkpad t43, and 99.9% of the time I don't need<br>
>> a windowmanager, but for that 0.1% of the time I am glad I do.<br>
><br>
> What is a specific example of that 0.1%? I keep seeing the hand-waving<br>
> about needing a window manager but nobody ever produces a specific<br>
> use-case when they have needed it.<br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"></div>
</div>We'd probably put an *Advanced* warning<br>
on it since networking and such would need to be configured manually.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, sometimes you just want to do something that MythTV doesn't support elegantly, like playing media off a USB mass storage device.</div><div><br></div><div>- Chris</div></div></div></div>