[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 14.04 and unwanted pop-ups

[Mike Perkins]

On 05/05/14 18:14, Christopher Kerr wrote:
> On 6 May 2014 01:09, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 13:48 +0000, Leo Butler wrote:
>>>> I run 12.04 ubuntu with the myth packages as a frontend (not
>>>> mythbuntu) on an old thinkpad t43, and 99.9% of the time I don't need
>>>> a windowmanager, but for that 0.1% of the time I am glad I do.
>>>
>>> What is a specific example of that 0.1%?  I keep seeing the hand-waving
>>> about needing a window manager but nobody ever produces a specific
>>> use-case when they have needed it.
>>
>
>
>> We'd probably put an *Advanced* warning
>> on it since networking and such would need to be configured manually.
>>
>
>   And herein is an answer to Brian's question - sometimes the GUI is rather
> handy. Someday I'll get around to putting all the myth stuff on it's own
> subnet so nothing I do in the rest of the house affects it, but right now
> the simple truth is that the mythboxen are appliances that live in an
> unstable environment, and reconfiguration is pretty frequent. By definition
> that kind of reconfiguration is difficult to do over ssh.
>
> Also, sometimes you just want to do something that MythTV doesn't support
> elegantly, like playing media off a USB mass storage device.
>
I have no problem using the myth GUI over ssh[1]. Just use 'ssh -Y <user>@<box>'.

The only time my master backend leaves the cupboard it calls home is when I'm 
changing hardware. Even then I only need to do enough to prove that it boots and 
ssh still works and back it goes.

[1] Or any other program that requires a GUI that makes configuration easier. I 
don't run X on my MBE.

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Mike Perkins