On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:58:34AM -0500, Travis Osterman wrote: > I've been using Myth on my dedicated fc1 box for roughly one year now > and have only wonderful things to say. During the holidays I am > planning on performing some hardware upgrades to my system and am will > be installing gentoo on my Myth box. I haven't ventured far in the > relm of window managers (I prefer gnome myself) so I was looking for a > recommendation on a lightweight wm that would offer a slight increase > in performance from KDE. > > I've seen blackbox and fvwm mentioned in the mythtv.org howto and > would appreciate any more information whether one is preferrable or if > there are other undocumented alternatives. Thank you all for a > wonderful project and community. I use fvwm2 on Mandrake 10.1 with a custom config file and I am very happy with it. I use Mandrake's autologin setup to automatically log the mythtv user in when X starts. I then have a custom .fvwm2rc file that starts myth full screen.
Cheers Scott Petersen Place the following file in ~mythtv/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc ----------------start of .fvwm2rc-------------------- # Submitted by Scott Elliott <selliott at insight.rr.com> Style myth* NoTitle, NoHandles, Sticky, WindowListSkip, SloppyFocus, GrabFocus, BorderWidth 0 # Changes by Scott Petersen #set the desk top size in units of physical screen size DeskTopSize 1X1 # Stuff to do at start-up # Start mythfrontend # Start IRexec so we can start and stop mythfrontend from the remote. Function "StartFunction" Exec exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend Exec exec /usr/bin/irexec --daemon ~/.mythtv/lircrc EndFunction Function "RestartFunction" Exec "I" exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend Exec "I" exec /usr/bin/irexec --daemon ~/.mythtv/lircrc EndFunction # Starts mythfrontend from the keyboard using F1 Key F1 R A exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend
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