[mythtv-users] mythvideo and irxevent

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:05, James L. Paul wrote:
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> Ian Forde wrote:
> | On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 22:55, James L. Paul wrote:
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> |>Reiter, John wrote:
> |>| What window manager are you using?
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> |>Whatever the default is for GNOME on RH9.
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> | Heh - that's Bluecurve.  Want to shave some of the CPU and memory
> | usage from your box?  Use fvwm2 instead.  I believe it's in either
> | rh7.2 or rh7.3.  Less bloat (on your myth box) is gooooooodddd....
> | ;)

Actually, I think it's 'metacity'.  'Bluecurve' is the name of the 
common theme RH developed to give KDE & Gnome the same look & feel.


> Actually, I was using twm with 0.11, but switched it back to the
> gnome-session while working on 0.12. CPU usage hasn't been different
> between the two, though I don't doubt the memory footprint is bigger
> with bluecurve.
>
> Does the window manager really have any impact on CPU when Myth has
> focus?
>
> I admit I'm not up on bluecurve and such, I have been using RH as my
> desktop OS since version RH6, but I have always used my own kernels
> and Windowmaker. I didn't bother installing WM or doing any desktop
> configs since I planned on only running Myth on that box. ;)


Check your focus policy to make sure it's 'click to focus' rather than 
'focus follows mouse'.

-JAC