Hi, Sorry for the late response. Glad you're making headway. As for me I have 4 Pundit-R's running mythfrontend under fluxbox. All machines use Celeron D's and have 256MB. One Pundit-R also acts as an NFS server for the backend machine so the recording hardware (PVR-150 & PVR-250) is in a desktop machine but the storage is across the network in one frontend machine on a larger SATA drive.
I don't have keyboards or mice hooked to any of these machines. They are controlled purely using StreamZap remotes ($25) via USB. I created my own LIRC mapping which is pretty remedial but does what I want. The machine spawns mythfrontend on display 0: from /etc/inittab so if Myth dies unexpectedly it's just automatically restarted. I shut the machines down using sudo. It all works really well for us. I'm sure that all of the above can be done on any of the major or minor window managers. Since these machines run Gentoo I wanted the most simple and speedy window manager that I could get to build from source. Good luck and have fun. Cheers, Mark On 8/25/05, Nes Yarug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you to everyone who replied. I'll have a go with a few lightweight > window managers (ratpoison, ion3, xfce) and see how it goes. > > Regards, > Nes > > Jo Shields wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> On 8/24/05, Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Nes Yarug wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> Please don't take this as a start for a flame war between Gnome and > >>>> KDE. I'd just like to know which Window Manager plays best with > >>>> MythTV. Most how-tos (what is the plural for that anyway :) seem to > >>>> favor KDE? Or is it possible to run MythTV without a Window Manager? > >>>> > >>> > >>> I use fluxbox. Much lighter than KDE. I think you can run twm even if > >>> you want or without a window manager too. > >>> > >> > >> > >> I second the fluxbox nomination. At least use something similarly > >> lightweight. If you want to run in 512M or so of RAM, you don't want > >> gnome or kde cluttering your system with things you simply don't need > >> for a myth box. > >> > >> > > > > XFCE 4.2 is the only WM of those I tried which didn't have some focus > > problems - things like flux were 'mostly' OK, but nothing else wanted to > > put VLC on top and focused when playing DVDs > > > > --Jo Shields > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
