November 2007 Archives

After a bit of time playing with Media portal, which is GREAT, I have gone back to mythtv, which is not quite as intuitive, and setting up a recording is the worst ui experience, I only hope it gets better, but step one for me is to get the autologin working on Centos 5 the howto is below

Need an X11 interface that works quickly and for free... install Cygwin with X11 and openssh.... then make sure your ssh on your remote host has X11forwarding=yes.

from your bash shell in cygwin type startx a x11 xterm will come up and type:

DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -Y remotehost

you set... then any remote x app will appear on your desktop