[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup --- Does a CLI Exist?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/06/2015 05:37 PM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> X is very efficient - unless the UI uses lots of bitmaps for objects, then all that's passed are instructions on what to draw where, not passing huge bitmaps like VNC.

And note that it's generally also important to disable the OpenGL 
painter when you're doing X redisplay (or even VNC).  Generally, all it 
takes is ensuring your paint engine is (always) set to 'Auto' (which 
/everyone/ should be using, except those who use broken video hardware, 
drivers, or windowing systems for whom the system only works with Qt 
chosen).  If set this way, MythTV GUI applications will choose to use 
OpenGL when run locally with direct OpenGL support, but use Qt when run 
over X forwarding or in a not-direct-rendered X server started by VNC.

Of course, if you're using Windows-style VNC on the system on which 
you're running mythtv-setup (i.e. :0.0 VNC, to share what's actually 
showing on your monitor), rather than a "normal" VNC session (that 
starts its own X server that's not physically displayed on the system, 
but only on the VNC client), you may need to explicitly set the paint 
engine to Qt instead of Auto, since the MythTV client will detect that 
it's running on a system with direct-rendered OpenGL support--even 
though VNC is trying to then grab what's on screen to send across the 
network.

Mike