Friday, December 21, 2007

MythFrontend over VNC

Sometimes I like to access my MythTV box over VNC. However, MythFrontend's default settings use OpenGL which doesn't play nicely with VNC. I found adding a parameter to the mythfrontend command forces it to use the QT painter instead of OpenGL which makes everything work perfectly (except for video of course). Since my MythTV box doesn't normally have a keyboard attached to it, and I find that using the remote to make changes in the setup can sometimes be tedious, so I use this trick to make things a little bit easier. Here's the command:

mythfrontend -O ThemePainter=qt

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