[mythtv-users] TV and Projector - need two frontends on one machine...

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 04:17, David wrote:
> Hi I've had a look in the archives but can't find anything to help.
>
> Basically I'd like to effectively run two frontends on my machine -
> one outputting via the PVR350 into the TV, the other via the VGA into
> an LCD projector.
> Ideally I'd like to have them available immediately (though not
> neccesarily concurrently - but if I can get dual headed X working
> with the PVR then why not?)
> One big problem I see is that the frontend settings seem to use the
> hostname to identify them.
> I was considering adding an 'alternate settings' capability to the
> frontend (ie add "-alt1", "-alt2" to the hostname before querying the
> db for the settings -also maybe cleaning it up - when I fully
> qualified my machines hostname I temporarily lost all my settings :(
> )
>
> Before I dive in and start hacking: has anyone anyone else solved
> this? Does anyone have any similar problems? Any ideas?

If you run each frontend from a separate account, you can edit 
${HOME}/.mythtv/mysql.txt to override the hostname the frontend assumes 
for itself.

-JAC