Openbox session (or gnome/kde session if you don't mind wasting memory and time on a desktop environment you don't you use). If you've installed those things, you should be able to boot, start an Installed) and probably pmount to automount USB devices. It's package that uses HAL (should also be Another package which is very useful is the "ivman" package.
You could probably run elisa without a window manager, but I like having the posibility to run a shell to start I also installed Openbox, which is a very light window
#UBUNTU MEDIA CENTER OS INSTALL#
Why? Because I knew about that software, and it seemed very easy to install on a clean Ubuntu installation.ĭid that work: yes, mostly.
#UBUNTU MEDIA CENTER OS TV#
sure, but even if you have a Highdef tv and can display your desktop on it, you'll need to be close to the screen to read everything, and use a mouse and/or keyboard to use it.
I know, you can use a GUI to browse trough files and then doubleclick. you may have missed a little point here: Media centers should be easy to use.
If you're now thinking "I got a commandline and mplayer/xine/. The interface can be controlled with only a few buttons, and can be used on a TV. Basicly, it plays/shows media like movies, music, pictures, with a simple to use interface. A copy-paste from the Elisa site: Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center solution designed to be simple for people not particularly familiar with computers. If Elisa is completely new to you and you want to see some screenshots, take a look here. Elisa is quite new (to me), but I was impressed when I first saw it at Fosdem 2008.