Secret, Hidden Options

Some of the options that affect the way the Mythbuntu frontend does things are not settable from the User Interface. If you'd like to change its behavior and you can't find out where to do so from the UI, there's always the direct-database-hacking approach. All of the configuration settings for each frontend are stored in the database in the "settings" table. This table has a key for the frontend's hostname. You can see all of the settings for a particular host, in alphabetical order, by doing this (on the master backend):

     mysql -uroot -p mythconverg
       select * from settings where hostname='yourhost' order by value asc;

If you want to see all of the settings for a particular setting on all of the frontends (so that you can compare the working ones against the broken ones), you can do this:

     mysql -uroot -p mythconverg
       select * from settings where value='ValueName' order by hostname asc;

Settings can be altered by:

     update settings set data='datavalue' where hostname='yourhost'
       and value='ValueName';

Settings can be deleted by:

     delete from settings where hostname='yourhost' and value='ValueName';

When you're done, exit mysql via the "quit" command.

Some settings of particular interest are:

     DisplayGroupDefaultViewMask   n       A bitmask that defines which groups are
                                           to be included in the "Default" group.
                                           Doesn't seem to be any way to get rid
                                           of it from the UI so, if you don't want
                                           the "Default" group to show up in the
                                           recorded list, delete this value.