[mythtv-users] Controlling Mythfrontend from remote computer

[Bruce Dillahunty]

I have had great luck with x2x (and osx2x on a Mac)... It lets you 
"control" an Xsession running on a different machine. I just run the 
mouse off one side of my screen and "onto" the myth box.

Something to look at.

Bruce

On Feb 17, 2004, at 22:10, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 February 2004 21:27, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>>> I am trying to have mythfrontend run on the mythbox and send 
>>> keystrokes to
>>> control the frontend from a remote location. Ideally I would like to 
>>> have
>>> the frontend displayed on the TV while I use my laptop to configure 
>>> the
>>> frontend settings. I don't want to actually see the mythbox desktop 
>>> on my
>>> laptop, just pass keystrokes. This could help me to alleviate buying 
>>> a
>>> wireless keyboard.
>>>
>>> VNC and X-Servers are not the answer as the display being sent over 
>>> the
>>> network slows things down, plus I don't see the changes on the TV. (I
> think
>>> VNC is starting another instance of mythfrontend) I have tried ssh 
>>> and
>>> opened mythfrontend on the remote display, but when I try to use the
> laptop
>>> keyboard to control the TV's display nothing happens.
>>>
>>> Am I using ssh wrong, or is there a better solution to this problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ray Gaida
>>
>> do a google search on rfb-0.6.1.tar.gz.  It contains a vnc server that
>> attaches to your existing X server and creates a vnc interface to it. 
>>  It
>> has a x0rfbserver binary for the server portion and a xrfbviewer for 
>> the
>> client end.  I run x0rfbserver on my main frontend in the living room 
>> and
>> when I want to upgrade Myth on the frontend, I just VNC into the box 
>> using
>> xrfbviewer and remote-control mythfrontend to exit and restart.
>>
>> This doesn't export your Xv display though when watching video, 
>> you'll just
>> see a blue screen, but you can still control the playing, you just 
>> can't
>> see what's playing. :)
>>
>> To compile rfb-0.6.1.tar.gz, you'll also need a file called
>> xclass-0.6.2.tar.gz which contains a display class it uses.  Google 
>> turned
>> up several locations for these files although the original site is 
>> gone
>> I believe.
>
> IIRC, this (or something exactly like it) is part of KDE3's Desktop 
> Sharing
> now.
>
> -JAC
>
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