[mythtv-users] Migrating ATI -> NVidia

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Ian Clark <mrrooster at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2008/11/23 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>
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>> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Arthur Green <arthur at phraction.org>
>> wrote:
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>> Can't say i would bother with kde for a myth system. Yes a window
>> manager is needed for focusing on the open window for mplayer etc, but
>> something nice and light like ratpoison or flux|blackbox will do it.
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> Do you really need a window manager? I start mythwelcome from my .xinit file
> (which I believe means I don't have a window manager running.) and was fully
> expecting lots of focusing issues after reading the wiki, but it's never
> been a problem, and as a way of just getting myth up and running it works
> quite well.
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> I don't use mplayer a lot though, but it does seem to work ok.
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> Cheers,
>
> Ian

You might be right. I have always believed that there can be focus
issues without  window manager. Thats based on (now) historical
traffic on this list. Whether it is still the case I don't know.