[mythtv-users] well, I got it (mostly) working...

[Isaac Richards]

On Saturday 10 May 2003 08:34 pm, Chris Petersen wrote:
> ok, after chatting with a friend who knows more about X11 than I do, I
> decided to go with the .Xclients approach and just start myth itself
> instead of a window manager...   All of this seems to work just fine,
> but once I start viewing the tv, I lose control of mythfrontend - no key
> input will control it and I'm forced to kill the process.  Does anyone
> else know anything about this behavior?  It also acts this way when I
> log in via redhat's "Failsafe" window manager (fvwm, I think, but not
> sure) and run mythfrontend from the command prompt.

You need to use a window manager to manage keyboard focus between windows.

> Also, any help with that compile error in mythmusic/etc would be
> appreciated...

You don't have QTDIR set.

Isaac