[mythtv-users] Selecting theme from command line

[Mario Limonciello]

Byron Poland wrote:

>On 4/28/05, Josh Burks <dotnofoolin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 4/28/05, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>I've set up my notebook to beable to run a second X session on the tv
>>>out.  My goal was to be able to run Myth on the tv out while
>>>traveling, and still use my notebook display if I want to do other
>>>things while watching tv etc.
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>>>I got it all working, and created 2 launchers on my desktop, one will
>>>lauch myth on the tv out display with the correct geometry, and the
>>>other will launch it on my local display.
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>>>My local display is 1920x1200, so I'd like it to use the wide
>>>minimalist theme if I'm running it there, and I'd like use another
>>>theme if running on the tv out.
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>>>mythfrontend -h doesn't give any options for setting the theme, so I
>>>was wondering if anyone knew of any undocumented commands.
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>>mysql to the rescue!
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>>All one line:
>>[mythtv at hydrogen ~]$ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -e "update
>>settings set data = 'MythCenter' where value = 'Theme'"
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>>You may need to restart the frontend, or exec this before you even
>>start it. You might want to throw your hostname into the query as
>>well.
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>>Josh
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>I'll give this a shot thanks.  also I think I might make back up
>copies of the prescaled stuff and script it to copy them over before
>starting, as too speed up the start up time, even better yet just
>symlink it.
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Now if you running this on your notebook while traveling, what are your
plans for where your backend is?  Are you caching all of your recordings
locally to this laptop?  a