[mythtv-users] My experience with the ratpoison window manager

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:07 AM, stan at stanandliz.net wrote:

>
> Sorry to sound confused, but why do you need a window manager at all?
>
> I have a boot script that runs the following command on startup:
>
> startx /usr/bin/mythfrontend &

Without a window manager many people end up with focus issues when  
they run external programs like xine to view movies or mame to play  
games - specifically, lirc stops responding to the front application.  
If you only use myth frontend and its internal player, you probably  
don't need it.