[olug] A short Mythbuntu Report

[Jay Swackhamer]

Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> Appearance -> Next -> (checkbox - Run  
Frontend in window)

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Quoting Kenny Kant <kenny.kant at running-config.com>:

> Dave,
>
> Thanks for posting your experience with this.  I am also looking for a
> good way to run my myth-frontend within a Window instead of full screen.
> Right now I just alt-tab out of it when not watching (this is on Gutsy
> desktop going to a mythbuntu 7.10 backend)
>
> I would be interested when you find a solution!
>
> Kenny
>
>
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 20:51 -0500, Dave Thacker wrote:
>> I did a successful Mythbuntu install today from a the 7.10 Live CD.   It was
>> very painless, within a couple of hours I was watching basketball and
>> recording an episode of CSI.
>>
>> I'm using a Dell Pentium 1.7Ghz for the backend.  The Mythbuntu CD installed
>> without major problems and I had the 5 step MythTV setup in front of me.  I
>> did have some kind of theme/display glitch inside of the setup script.  My
>> mouse was only visible inside of a text box, which made navigation   
>> a bit of a
>> pain, but still workable.  I used my notes from Jon L's presentation last
>> fall to set things up, and had no problems with the major settings.
>>
>> When setting up the MythTV I told the backend that the server and   
>> myth server
>> were both at 192.168.1.110.  I wondered if Myth was actually setting the IP
>> in /etc/network/interfaces.  The answer  was no.  When I rebooted   
>> the box for
>> the first time, it still sent out for a DHCP address, so I dropped back to
>> xfce and set it properly.
>>
>> After my stunning success with the backend, I went back upstairs and used
>> Adept to pull down the mythtv-frontend package for my main desktop   
>> PC.  After
>> a trip back downstairs to get the mysql password, I was rewarded with the
>> main MythTV screen.  I hit "Watch TV" and played with the controls while
>> Kansas outlasted Davison.
>>
>> Still to do:
>> 1) Learn to program recordings carefully.  I had no idea that   
>> "Hannah Montana"
>> was shown that often.
>> 2) FInd a way to run the frontend in a window instead of full   
>> screen, so I can
>> pretend to get work done.   I think I saw some window configuration tools in
>> the Appearances section of setup, but when I enabled "Run in A Window" the
>> window Myth ran in was not re-sizeable.
>> 3) Play with the music and DVD settings
>> 4) Buy a DVD Burner
>> 5) Buy a bigger hard drive
>> 6) Find out if someone who has Fox Soccer channel will ship me a few
>> Premiership matches or Aussie Rules Football matches.
>>
>> PS.  DIT (be nice, I have family that works there) had a Blu-Ray   
>> reader on the
>> counter yesterday.  Are any of them working in Linux yet?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
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