[mythtv-users] Which Window Manager?

[Preston Crow]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:18, Roy Murphy wrote:
> Now that we've had a nice long thread discussing distributions, let's
> talk about window managers. KDE and Gnome sould like *way* too much
> overhead for a Myth frontend. Anyone using other window managers?

Initially, I was running without a window manager, but this proved to be
problematic for things that used an external program, like MythVideo and
MythGame.  The keyboard focus wasn't behaving nicely.

Then I tried using ratpoison, based on advice from numerous threads on
the same topic that you can find in the list archives.

Then I wanted to use xrandr to switch resolutions based on the source
material (for HDTV signals so that Myth isn't converting 1080i to
720p).  This required a change to wmi ("window manager improved").  My
only complaint about wmi is that it pops up an xterm with the man page
when it starts up, and I haven't been able to figure out how to stop
that (the documentation says it only does it the first time, but it
seems to always think it's the first time--I'm near to the point of
patching the code to replace the command with /bin/true).

--PC