[mythtv-users] Can mythtv be started without a wimdowmanager

[Brandon Bowman]

On Apr 27, 2004, at 12:34 PM, Jack Burghardt wrote:

> I don't use window manager with CRUX 1.6 and my xinit has mythtfrontend
> instead of window manager.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Asciimonster" <asciimonster at myrealbox.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 9:43 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Can mythtv be started without a wimdowmanager
>
>
>> I now have separate partitions for Linux and Linux-with-mythtv.
>> I'm currently trying to remove unused things to speedup the 
>> boot-to-myth
>> loadtime and have the entire process load automatically.
>> I've changed from kde to fvwm2, and that speeded things up enormously.
>>
>> Just curious: can myth be started without starting a window manager? 
>> (Or
>> conversely can it get the function of the window manager?)
>>
>
>
I find that if I run "mythfrontend" directly from .xinitrc, when I load 
up a video file with mplayer, from MythVideo, that mplayer doesn't 
respond to any input
from the keyboard and the only way to exit it and get back to MythTV is 
to kill X and restart it.  Am I doing something wrong here?

Brandon