[mythtv-users] Selecting theme from command line

[Josh Burks]

On 4/28/05, Byron Poland <wpoland at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've set up my notebook to beable to run a second X session on the tv
> out.  My goal was to be able to run Myth on the tv out while
> traveling, and still use my notebook display if I want to do other
> things while watching tv etc.
> 
> I got it all working, and created 2 launchers on my desktop, one will
> lauch myth on the tv out display with the correct geometry, and the
> other will launch it on my local display.
> 
> My local display is 1920x1200, so I'd like it to use the wide
> minimalist theme if I'm running it there, and I'd like use another
> theme if running on the tv out.
> 
> mythfrontend -h doesn't give any options for setting the theme, so I
> was wondering if anyone knew of any undocumented commands.

mysql to the rescue!

All one line:
[mythtv at hydrogen ~]$ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -e "update
settings set data = 'MythCenter' where value = 'Theme'"

You may need to restart the frontend, or exec this before you even
start it. You might want to throw your hostname into the query as
well.

Josh