On 31/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damian Surr</b> <<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.co.uk">damian@gingermagic.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
William Munson wrote:<br>> Damian Surr wrote:<br>><br>>> Hello all,<br>>><br>>> I have a lovely functioning MythTV running on Ubuntu, but I find myself<br>>> fighting with Gnome to configure things so I intend to install the
<br>>> Kubuntu Desktop on top. Is there any reason not to do this or anything<br>>> to be careful of?<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>><br>> No reason at all other then its another bloated display manager. You
<br>> would be better off with one of the "lightweight" managers like fluxbox.<br>> Load time is about 1/3 that of Gnome/KDE and it does not load lots of<br>> background tasks to slow your system down.<br>
><br>Thanks William<br><br>Maybe I'll try Xbuntu as well. That's a nice light weight manager isn't it?<br><br>I don't really care how long it takes to load as it's a pretty<br>negligible amount of time compared to the actual system boot up. 5 more
<br>seconds once every few days don't matter to me, but if there's a<br>difference in how responsive they feel then I'd maybe be interested.</blockquote><div><br>Check the synaptic package manager for ubuntu-mythtv-frontend . Installing that should setup your box completely for myth, with automatic login and startup and etc.. (I think anyway)
<br><br>Food for thought.<br></div><br></div><br>