Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:05:28 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> > A curses setup program should please the frugal engineers, or would
> > you prefer to alter the MySQL table files with a hex editor? ;-)  
> 
> I usually do one of three things:
> 
>  1) Type SQL commands.
> 
>  2) Use Mythweb.
> 
>  3) Run the setup program so that it displays on a different
>     machine.
> 
> 
> That last option is clumsy, since it takes forever to start up,
> is sluggish once it is running, and I find the UI used by the
> setup programs to be obtuse: arrow, and enter keys never do
> what I expect them to (and I've been using Myth for 6+ years
> now).

You can't do stuff like channel scanning with the first two, so running
mythtv-setup over SSH is the only option, which means you need qt3 and X
libs on a headless server :(


-- 
Neil Bothwick

And God said "Let there be light" and there was light.
There was still nothing, but you could see it better.

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