[mythtv-users] My experience with the ratpoison window manager

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/08/2006 08:46 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 11/8/06, stan at stanandliz.net <stan at stanandliz.net> wrote:
>   
>> Sorry to sound confused, but why do you need a window manager at all?
>>
>> I have a boot script that runs the following command on startup:
>>
>> startx /usr/bin/mythfrontend &
> you don't, I do the same, no window manager, on two frontends. the
> older xine library did play nice this way, but the new one does.
>   

But the point you're not getting is that there's no reason not to run a 
WM.  And, since you're encouraging others to run without one, I 
sincerely hope you all plan to field any and all focus-related questions 
that arise in the future...

Mike