[mythtv-users] mythfrontend and Gnome or mythfrontend sans window manager with firefox?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Oct 10 19:01:22 UTC 2010


  On 10/10/2010 02:36 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 13:24 -0400, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> you still want some form of window manager to handle
>> the Z level
> What is "Z level"?

Stacking

>> and focus.
> IMHO, this is a common misconception.  I know I will get an argument
> about this but I have run Myth for many (i.e. since about 0.18 or 0.19)
> years without ever using a window manager and have never had a problem.
> Even when I used to use mplayer as an external video player (that's how
> long I have been using Myth).

And, therefore, all swans are white.

But, hey, I'm sure you're using that 300kB of RAM far more effectively 
than it would have been used for running a window manager.

Mike


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