On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:01, Donavan Stanley wrote: > You're willing to run a seperate X session... Sorting top byt memory > consumption shows my window manager (ratpoison) consuming less memory > than the script I use to launch the frontend.
When using a lowend box I would rather use the video card's memory/gpu. The PVR250 put very little load on the cpu of the box, I needed the remaining CPU and memory for decoding since I had no hardware decoder. > So what you're saying is we should build a window manager into myth so > that you don't have to run a window manager? I am no programmer so I really have no idea. I assume the "we" you are referring to is you and other myth developers? If you are a myth developer, then yes, I am saying it would be nice for mythtv to be able to run without an external window manager. Again, I assume a window manager is simply making calls to the X libraries. I am purely guessing that having myth directly call whatever functions needed to handle focus and full screen are already present in the myth code. Myth handles swapping between viewing with it's own internal viewer/menus/modules just fine. > Except that's not what you're bitching about. You're complaining > about not managing to full screen apps. (which is really two windows) > which is one of the primary functions of.... a window manager. So, the capability to full screen and focus windows resides in window managers, not the X libs? > Yes, it's such waste it justifies the massive development effort to do > away with X. We look forward to your patch, Am I incorrect in recalling that myth can use embedded QT instead of X? I don't remember where I got that idea. Regardless, admittedly, I am pretty much a complete dumbass when it comes to coding. I hack around with various scripting languages, that is about it. I apologize if I came across as "bitching". I love my mythtv and highly appreciate the obvious effort that has gone into it. No commercial product compares in my opinion. My only wish is that myth could run on lower end boxes so that I can have 10 mythboxes running on old recycled hardware :)
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