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Re: [LUG] MythTV etc

 

On Monday 22 May 2006 09:36, Grant Sewell wrote:
>
> If mythfrontend is the only application that's going to be run, would it
> not make better sense then to create a custom .xinitrc (or .desktop, or
> whatever it is these days) that runs the single application (mythfrontend)
> with no window-manager or desktop-environment?  That'd save on a few
> resources and processor cycles, surely?
>

Indeed it would. If you're only going to run mythfrontend for liveTV playback, 
you can do without any kind of window manager. If however, you want to use 
mythfrontend to also play DVDs (which works via a 3rd party application such 
as mplayer or xine) you need a window manager like ratpoison (no desktop, no 
icons, no menus, just something to manage windows), otherwise X can't handle 
the multiple windows and things such as keyboard focus get lost.

Regards,
David.

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