Ahh, I dont have mythvideo or mythdvd setup... all i do is watch TV and music, so I guess ive never run into the focus issues :)
I was thinking of getting mythvideo installed though, so I guess I should be aware of focus issues and the need for WM :) thanks! James On Saturday 29 October 2005 8:55 am, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > 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 -- James Grant Lightbox Technologies Inc. http://www.lightbox.org 613-294-3670
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