I use Evilwm in my mythfrontends and I just SSH into them for admin since they are only plugged into TVs.
I think Evilwm is the smallest WM out there and it works great. The xBox has no memory problems. Ben --- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 30 October 2005 15:36, Cory Papenfuss > wrote: > > >>> 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 > > > > > > have you tried the "-fstype" in mplayer? it > should be able to fix any > > > focus issues with whatever WM you use. > > > > > > Steve > > > > I haven't, but it's something I wasn't aware > of... good thing to > > remember in my "bag-o-tricks." I actually have > another good reason for > > ratpoison... no monitor (only NTSC television) on > the local computer. If > > I need to fix something, I need a terminal. > Console mode doesn't work > > (only 480i, not VGA works on the NTSC TV).... so, > I use ratpoison to fire > > up an xterm. > > > > ... and YES, with a decent tvout, a 80x24 xterm > is quite readable > > on a TV. > > > > -Cory > > ah, well, there is that too ;-) Do you have another > linux computer you could > SSH into your mythtv box with? Minus a network > problem you can run anything > from the MythTV box and have it output to the other > linux machine. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > ----------------------------------------------------- | o | | _ /<_ | |(_)>(_) | |Ben Dash | |Ask free questions - http://bensqanda.blogspot.com | |My Blog - http://bensdailythoughts.blogspot.com | |Info - http://bensinformationstation.blogspot.com | |Workouts - http://bensworkouts.blogspot.com | ----------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users