On Wednesday 09 March 2005 22:16, KianTeck wrote: > >>I run the setup program on my headless backend all the time. I just ssh > >>into it from my frontend and run setup. The setup program is displayed > >>on the frontend using X but is actually run from the backend and > >>modifies the backend's settings. > > > >I know, I do the same. The question was why X and Qt even have to be on > > the backend though. > > When you run an X application remotely, it is the GUI output that gets > displayed at the local machine. ÂIn other words, if you ssh into the > backend from a frontend (or any *nix box)
Or from Windows w/an X server running (I've done it w/Cygwin's X server).
> and run mythsetup, mythsetup
> runs on the backend (ie it's using the backend's CPU cycles), but the
> output is displayed on the frontend.
I know that too. :-)
> Hope this explains why you'll need X and Qt on the backend.
Not exactly, at least, not in the way the OP is after, I believe. I think the
OP was after a way to do master backend setup without any X or Qt at all. I
completely understand why X and Qt are needed with the current setup utility.
I believe the question was more "why isn't there a cli way to do it?". The
main reason is because nobody has written the code to do it. Its been hashed
over a few times on the list before. Saving a few people a few megabytes of
storage on a system that should have several GB of storage (for recordings)
just isn't a priority.
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