[mythtv-users] mythtv minus tv

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 27 June 2003 09:36 am, Jared Verdi wrote:
> First, I just wanna say I love what I see already, and I'm just getting
> started.  The GUI is far better than any similar software I've seen for
> linux or windows.  Now, I am putting a computer in my car, and I would
> like to use mythtv for controlling mp3s, movies, and weather, but I
> don't want to watch tv or run the backend at all.  I have commented out
> the three server connection lines in mythfrontend/main.cpp, and I'm
> getting it to run, but after exiting any of the modules, the computer
> freezes/doesn't accept keyboard input.  Anyone wanna help me out?

Focus issue.  Switching your window manager to click to focus generally fixes 
that.

> Another question:  Would it be possible to have an auxiliary module
> added to mythtv that just spawns another outside program from an
> accepted command?  I would love to be able to grab gpsdrive for driving
> directions and such straight from mythtv.  Im sure others would have
> different uses for being able to run an outside program on top of
> mythtv.

You can create additional menus / spawn any program you want just by adding 
new stuff to the menu .xml files.  mainmenu.xml should be fairly self 
explanatory on the format to use.

Isaac