[gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

[Grant Edwards]

On 2018-12-02, Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
> On 2018.12.01 23:21, Daniel Frey wrote:

>> I ran into one issue, that being on my server (mythtv, file, etc) I
>> am normally in text/ssh mode but occasionally I need X for something.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> This all stems from occasionally needing a gui for configuring
>> mythtv or the ability to have two shells open side by side.

> What about not installing xorg at all on that box, and just ssh'ing in
> from a different PC with full desktop setup  when you need a gui?

That's mostly what I used to do when I ran a headless MythTV server.
You have to have all the X11 _client_ stuff installed on the MythTV
server, but you don't actually have to have an X11 server on the
MythTV server.  You can run the MythTV GUI configuration program
remotely via the normal command line magic "DISPLAY=<whatever>
mythtv-setup", or you can let ssh -X/-Y options handle it for you with
somethi8ng like "ssh -X mythtv-setup@my-mythv-server".

MythTV's requirement to use a GUI setup program on a "headless"
server, always seemed like a massively stupid design decision.

That said, it's been many years since I've run MythTV.  I switched to
SageTV because of the brilliantly small and silent set-top-boxes. But
Google bought SageTV and pulled the plug on that, so a year or two
back I switched to Plex (which you configure via a web UI).  The Plex
plugin for OSMC/Kodi has a clumsy UI, but works pretty well.  However,
the Plex app for Roku seems to be useless...

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