Mailing List Archive: TWM / FVWM (was Task bar under Gnome with MPlayer, how to hide?)

TWM / FVWM (was Task bar under Gnome with MPlayer, how to hide?)

May 19, 2003, 5:37 PM

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On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 19:48, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> Read the archives... Myth doesn't play nice with Gnome. If you must use a
> full-blown desktop environment, use KDE. Otherwise, I recommend a
> lightweight window manager like Blackbox or FVWM.

I've been having a problem getting mythtv to work under twm and fvwm. I'll try to start
up using a regular xterm, and it will display Connecting to backend, but then never
display anything. I have to restart my entire system before it will bring up the
frontend again. Usually I do it from KDE, but I'd like to not have to worry about
the kde stuff taking any cpu / disk space...

Any ideas?

Brett

Re: TWM / FVWM (was Task bar under Gnome with MPlayer, how to hide?) [ In reply to ]

lists at forevermore

May 19, 2003, 5:45 PM

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> I've been having a problem getting mythtv to work under twm and fvwm. I'll try to start
> up using a regular xterm, and it will display Connecting to backend, but then never
> display anything. I have to restart my entire system before it will bring up the
> frontend again. Usually I do it from KDE, but I'd like to not have to worry about
> the kde stuff taking any cpu / disk space...

I had something similar happen with fvwm and whatever redhat calls
"failsafe". Though I could ctrl-alt-backspace (or was it control-shift
- whatever) to kill X and get back in. I ended up switching to
blackbox and haven't had any trouble since.

-Chris

Re: TWM / FVWM (was Task bar under Gnome with MPlayer, how to hide?) [ In reply to ]

linux.news at bucksch

May 19, 2003, 5:52 PM

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Brett Profitt wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 19:48, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>
>
>>I recommend a lightweight window manager like Blackbox or FVWM.
>>
>>
>I've been having a problem getting mythtv to work under twm and fvwm.
>
>I'd like to not have to worry about
>the kde stuff taking any cpu / disk space...
>
>Any ideas?
>
Did you try blackbox, like he said? There must be more than 100
different window managers for X Windows, <http://www.plig.org/xwinman/>
lists a lot of them, one of them will probably work for you.

Re: TWM / FVWM (was Task bar under Gnome with MPlayer, how to hide?) [ In reply to ]

jcaputo1 at comcast

May 19, 2003, 7:24 PM

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Sounds like maybe the frontend can't open /dev/dsp, or whatever your audio
device is.

-JAC

On Monday 19 May 2003 08:37 pm, Brett Profitt wrote:
> I've been having a problem getting mythtv to work under twm and fvwm. I'll
> try to start up using a regular xterm, and it will display Connecting to
> backend, but then never display anything. I have to restart my entire
> system before it will bring up the frontend again. Usually I do it from
> KDE, but I'd like to not have to worry about the kde stuff taking any cpu /
> disk space...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Brett