<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Hadley Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hads@nice.net.nz" target="_blank">hads@nice.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 09/10/13 11:32, Aaron Pelly wrote:<br>
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I have a mate who's interested in a PC running ubuntu and myth. Which<br>
should be reasonable. The PC will probably be in close proximity to the<br>
TV, making an HDMI cable plausible. I'm wondering if myth will happily<br>
run on one monitor, the TV, while his other monitor is used for general<br>
computing. Further to this, for lounge chair use, can a remote be set up<br>
for either just the TV monitor, or just myth?<br>
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I hope this is clear. I'm sure I could set something up along these<br>
lines for him, after some research, but I don't need to reinvent the<br>
wheel if you guys already know of similar solutions. The guy is<br>
reasonably tech savvy, and happy to fiddle a bit. WAF is not an issue.<br>
But anything that's too high maintenance probably won't be acceptable.<br>
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I've done this before and it wasn't that fun.<br>
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I set it up as dual screen and there were issues with focus and applications wanting to use the wrong screen and such.<br>
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It may be better with multiple X displays but you may also run into issues with acceleration, I don't know I haven't tried that way.<br>
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Regardless, it's a vastly more complex a set up than separate boxes. It will work, you just have to decide whether you are happy to deal with all the issues or not.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I run vnc for remote access to my myth box and it is essentially just a separate X server. It works well. So one option would be to set that up and use a cheap terminal (e.g. a Raspberry Pi) to access it.<br>
<br>If I didn't want to do that I'd still set it up in much the same way separate X servers for the desktop and the TV. I believe it'd require two graphics cards (or onboard + discrete). This is also probably the easiest way to keep input devices separate.<br>
<br></div><div>There are some other options here: <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Running_MythTV_Dual_Headed">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Running_MythTV_Dual_Headed</a> but the info there looks fairly old.<br></div><div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div></div></div>