[mythtv-users] MythTV Install

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Richard Brook <byronf16 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 15, 2014 6:49 PM, "Jean-Yves Avenard" <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Richard Brook <byronf16 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> >
>>> > Why?? This is an appliance, youaren't supposed ot ever see the desktop.
>>>
>>> MythTv may be an appliance to you, but to me it is an application that I
>>> use to watch LiveTV and record programming. When I am not watching LiveTv or
>>> recordings, I use a web browser to access Internet sites such as YouTube,
>>> Netflix, Hulu Plus, etc., read email, play music, watch DVD's, and other
>>> such things that utilize audio.
>>
>>
>> Then don't use xfce or mythbuntu
>>
>> That's what Nick was referring to. If you want a desktop that can also run
>> mythtv, then using xfce is clearly not the best choice.
>>
>> You can of course start from mythbuntu default install and add some more.
>>
>> But don't complain that mythbuntu doesn't come with some widgets when it
>> clearly wasn't designed to do that.
>
> I am not complaining. As I stated before, all I wanted to do was get MythTv
> running under Ubuntu 14.04, like I have in past versions of Ubuntu and
> MythTv. When I ran into trouble installing MythTv, under Ubuntu 14.04, I
> came to this forum and was advised to install Mythbuntu and then configure
> the Desktop the way I wanted. This is the first time I heard that Mythbuntu
> was not designed to have a Desktop that functions like the one in Ubuntu.
> There is even a setting, in the Applications menu, that let me install
> Ubuntu Desktop.
>
> I just assumed that the Mythbuntu 14.04 iso file I downloaded and installed
> was just Ubuntu with MythTv added.
>
> I never heard of XFCE before installing Mythbuntu, so I did not know it had
> limitations that Unity and Gnome did not.
>
> I am just trying to learn here, not stir up resentment.

Have you tried clicking the panel and seeing if you can add an audio
gizmo? (gizmo being a completely unscientific word I know).


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