Tired of dealing with MythTV’s xfce tiny fonts, Bad TV resolution, cumbersome or non existent remote controls, or you simply want to manage your MythTV box remotely (i.e. from work, or on vacation) Then this article is for you.

For those of you not familiar with NX, the best way I can describe it is that, it is similar to a Windows Remote Desktop or VNC connection but considerably faster. I specifically wrote this article because I needed do have complete control over my MythTV box remotely and not be limited to what MythTV’s web interface offered. I could not find any information on the web on how to accomplish this with NX and I definitely did not want to do it with VNC because there is considerable lag. All I was able to find was information on how to configure NX with XFCE (or Xubuntu), witch even though it helped a little it did not provide a complete solution to the Mythbuntu – NX scenario. For this article I am using Mythbuntu version 9.10 Karmic Koala for the server and Ubuntu Linux for the Client OS however the configuration will be exactly the same for a Windows NX client or any other OS capable of running the NX client.

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