[mythtv-users] command line mythtv-setup

[Yan Seiner]

Michael T. Dean

>
> I'd say, "Fortunately no one has added..." because, had they done so,
> the devs would be the ones stuck maintaining 2 settings UI's.  (Though
> if done right, the settings stuff could be refactored so only the UI
> stuff was redundant, but that would be one very large patch.)
>
> To the OP:  Note that you can do:
>
> ssh -l mythtv -Y <hostname>
>
> where -l specifies the user and -Y specifies that X forwarding should be
> allowed.  Then run mythtv-setup or mythfrontend (for the settings part)
> from there.  Note that you will need to ensure you're using the QT
> painter (i.e. if you use the OpenGL painter when displaying locally, use
> the command-line argument "-O ThemePainter=qt").

Alas, I am X-less; text only and/or non-intel architecture.

What's really needed is a curses frontend for Qt.  :-)

--Yan

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