On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Joe Votour wrote:
I use a window manager on my MythTV machine (which is
dedicated to MythTV) because external applications
like xine won't get proper focus sometimes without a
window manager.
It's a pain to try to play a DVD in xine, and have it
behind the MythTV UI.
-- Joe
--- James Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't get why people even use a WM (for a
dedicated mythtv box)... I run
mythtv perfect without any overhead from a windows
manager...
Exactly. Ratpoison is the closest thing you can do to run without
a window manager while still running a window manager. It doesn't draw
any decorations on the screen. All it does is manage the focus of any
applications. I tried hard to run without a WM, but mplayer focus killed
me. I've been ratpoisoning for 18 months now with a raw X startup script
similar to what you mentioned.... although I may try to modify the
implementation to use init to respawn. Been thinking about that for
awhile.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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