I'm finding I'm not needing all the modules (i.e. news, browser, dvd). Any instructions on how to uninstall them?

Thanks!

This is not uninstalling the module. But you can easily remove the menu item for News or any menu item.

/usr/share/mythtv/info_menu.xml

And delete or comment out news section (red text).

In /usr/share/mythtv there is a bunch of .xml files each one controls a menu, browse though them to see what each one does.

However, this will remove all the plugins. All plugins are complied together to produce one Debian package. This will not change. So, you can perform the above then recompile the plugins to install just what you want (read the MythTV docs). Or edit the menu XML files in /usr/share/mythtv to remove the plugins you don't want. The plugins will still be on the system, however they won't be displayed on the menu.

Thank you everyone! It wasn't until I posted that I found the proper term was not modules, but plug-ins.

Thanks!

Hi,
Rather than delete stuff, why not just make it invisable as maybe later you may want them back?

Simply put <!-- before an undesired button and then after that button put a matching --> everything in between is hidden from the menu view.
<!--
<button>
<type>NEWS</type>
<text>News Feeds</text>
<text lang="DE">Nachrichten</text>
<text lang="CA">Notícies</text>
<text lang="ES">Noticias</text>
<text lang="FR">Nouvelles</text>
<text lang="IS">Fréttir</text>
<text lang="NL">Nieuws</text>
<text lang="SV">Nyheter</text>
<text lang="JA">ニュース</text>
<text lang="FI">Uutiset</text>
<text lang="ZH_TW">網上新聞</text>
<text lang="SI">Novice</text>
<text lang="ET">Uudised</text>
<text lang="NB">Nyheter</text>
<text lang="DK">Nyheder</text>
<action>PLUGIN mythnews</action>
<depends>mythnews</depends>
</button>
-->

Mike

... and instead of editing them directly in /usr/share/mythtv/, I recommend copying one you want to change to ~mythtv/.mythtv/ and editing there. They will be picked up when mythtv user starts the frontend.

That way you have a directory that contains only the changed files so they can be easily found again (and are saved in a mythbackup/restore/upgrade).

Cheers,

Allen

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Hi alien,

I like that tip I hate to assume but from what you are saying is if the menus are in the .mythtv they over ride the default menus?

Thanks
Mike

That's correct. I just stuck something on wiki about this.

Cheers,

Allen

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