[mythtv-users] Window Managers - Success with "ratpoison" instead
of kde
Ben Dash
ben_dash at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 31 10:41:31 EST 2005
I use Evilwm in my mythfrontends and I just SSH into
them for admin since they are only plugged into TVs.
I think Evilwm is the smallest WM out there and it
works great. The xBox has no memory problems.
Ben
--- Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 30 October 2005 15:36, Cory Papenfuss
> wrote:
> > >>> Exactly. Ratpoison is the closest thing you
> can do to run without
> > >>> a window manager while still running a window
> manager. It doesn't draw
> > >>> any decorations on the screen. All it does is
> manage the focus of any
> > >>> applications. I tried hard to run without a
> WM, but mplayer focus
> > >>> killed me. I've been ratpoisoning for 18
> months now with a raw X
> > >>> startup script similar to what you
> mentioned.... although I may try to
> > >>> modify the implementation to use init to
> respawn. Been thinking about
> > >>> that for awhile.
> > >>>
> > >>> -Cory
> > >
> > > have you tried the "-fstype" in mplayer? it
> should be able to fix any
> > > focus issues with whatever WM you use.
> > >
> > > Steve
> >
> > I haven't, but it's something I wasn't aware
> of... good thing to
> > remember in my "bag-o-tricks." I actually have
> another good reason for
> > ratpoison... no monitor (only NTSC television) on
> the local computer. If
> > I need to fix something, I need a terminal.
> Console mode doesn't work
> > (only 480i, not VGA works on the NTSC TV).... so,
> I use ratpoison to fire
> > up an xterm.
> >
> > ... and YES, with a decent tvout, a 80x24 xterm
> is quite readable
> > on a TV.
> >
> > -Cory
>
> ah, well, there is that too ;-) Do you have another
> linux computer you could
> SSH into your mythtv box with? Minus a network
> problem you can run anything
> from the MythTV box and have it output to the other
> linux machine.
>
> Steve
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