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 [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
