[mythtv-users] Ratpoison on dedicated frontend

[Leighton Brough]

Nowhere wrote:
> My guess is that the machine is just barely too slow so I decided to 
> try ratpoison to free up some resources. I yum installed it, selected 
> it from custom session, clicked to make it default and setup a 
> ~mythtv/.xsession file just as it says here
>  
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/98133?nohighlight=1#98133
>  
> However I don't think this file is every executed as mythfrontend 
> never starts.  So I RTFM at ratpoison site (which doesn't mention 
> anything about how to install ratpoison btw). and decided to create a 
> .ratpoisonrc file too. Doesnt seem that this gets executed either 
> since frontend still doesnt start up. Also when I ctrl-t or ctrl-c, no 
> terminal pops up. I obviously don't know anything about ratpoison and 
> the documentation is horrible unless you already know how to use it.
>  

Hi Eric,

I find ratpoison works really well with myth. I use ~/.xinitrc to start 
ratpoison:

exec /usr/bin/ratpoison

This does run .ratpoisonrc  when it starts. Mine contains this:

set bargravity south
exec ~/start-irxevent
exec ~/start-mtd
exec ~/start-mythbackend

The various start-* commands are just shell scripts which launch the 
programs in question with appropriate command line options (mythbackend 
in turn starts mythwelcome and mythfrontend). You need "Ctrl-T" then "C" 
to open a console window.

Cheers,
Leighton