[mythtv-users] MythTV Install

Tue Sep 16 15:03:05 UTC 2014

Hoi Hika,

Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 4:44:56 PM, you wrote:

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> Hoi Richard,

> Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 4:49:45 PM, you wrote:

>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Richard Brook <byronf16 at gmail.com> wrote:
 >>>
 >>> 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:
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>> >
 >>>>> > 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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>>  

>> I did many Google searches on the subject. When I right click on
>> the panel, and click the menu that gives me choices of items to add,
>> audio is not one of them. I did, however, find a discussion on how
>> to install an xfce volume indicator. This just adds a volume slider
>> to the panel.There are no other sound settings. I sometimes use
>> Skype and need to easily switch to my wireless headset and microphone, for example.

> Before you can add by right clicking you first must have it installed!

Look for xfce-mixer. It contains the panel plug-in

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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