[mythtv-users] text terminal as a part of myth?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 03:57:23 UTC 2009


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 10/11/2009 07:47 PM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone incorporated a text terminal into myth?  I'm looking for an
>>> xtext term that can be used to do some simple tasks.  I have a machine that
>>> only does X, and I need an "Operator console" to do some occasional
>>> maintenance, so I'd like to invoke it from the setup menu, have it pop up
>>> full screen, and, most importantly, I have to be able to configure the text
>>> size so it's legible on a low-res TV.
>>>
>>> I figure I can adapt xterm if I need to but I'm wondering if anyone has
>>> done something like this.
>>
>> EXEC xterm -fs 20
>>
>> perhaps?
>
> I used konsole as the terminal program as it is easy to set to use a
> big font so it fills the screen. I used a mouse and keyboard on my
> mythbox to make a konsole window full screen, set it to a nice colour
> scheme, made the font large, got rid of the menus, scrolbar and status
> line, then saved it as "default" settings. (NB I don't use this box as
> a desktop, so the fact that konsole is now set to dreadful defaults
> for daily use doesn't worry me). One option here might be to set
> konsole's background to be something from your favourite myth theme).
>
> Then set a menu button to run konsole
>

Although ssh from my laptop is easier and gives more characters per
line. It doesn't require the frontend to have a keyboard.

You do know that X is just a mechanism to get more consoles on screen at once?


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