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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/10/17 16:51, Barry Martin wrote:<br>
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Hi Paul!<br>
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<pre wrap=""><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">What version of MythTV are you using? I seem to remember some problems
were fixed in this area recently but you will have to update to a fairly
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Hopefully giving your the correct information. On the current Frontend I'm working on up here in the Computer Room the command "mythfrontend --version" gives the following:
MythTV Version : v0.28-2-g15cf421
MythTV Branch : fixes/0.28
Network Protocol : 88
Library API : 0.28.20160309-1
QT Version : 5.5.1
Should be fairly up-to-date as installed Ubuntu 16.04.3 and MythTV on this computer just a few days ago.
<blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">There are two sets of themes the default ones MythCenter,
MythCenter-wide and Tera which should be in /usr/share/mythtv/themes
typically.
And then there are the user installed ones which will be placed in the
theme directory in MythTV's config directory which is normally
$HOME/.mythtv. You can see exactly what it is in the frontend log you
will see a line that starts with "Using configuration directory ="
followed by the directory it's using.
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Currently /usr/share/mythtv/themes contains (via 'ls' command):
classic, default, defaultmenu, default-wide, DVR, mediacentermenu, MythCenter, MythCenter-wide, mythuitheme.dtd (must be a file), slave, Terra.
ls $HOME/.mythtv displays:
3rdParty, cache, channels, confix.xml, MythBrowser, themes, tmp.
The themes directory contains:
Arclight-master, Steppes, and Willi
As for the log, looking at "/var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log". Found a line "Using configuration directory = /home/barry/.mythtv" with "N thread_unknown mythdirs.cpp:194 (InitializeMythDirs)" preceding. (Probably unimportant -- I have no idea.)
Thanks!!
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Your version of mythtv is from April 2016 and is very old , Ubuntu
repositories do not get updated very often, mythtv has a ppa for
getting the most up to date versions see:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Ubuntu">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Ubuntu</a><br>
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In your case run the following in a terminal session:<br>
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sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
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I suggest you reboot after this, may not be strictly necessary, but
I do just to give a clean starting point.<br>
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Mike<br>
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