[mythtv-users] Crappy looking fonts when run from autologin/.xinitrc, beautiful fonts when run from KDM/terminal session

[Joseph A. Caputo]

Hmmm... I'm not exactly sure why the font problem, but here's a couple of
little things:

- get rid of the '&' at the end of your 'xset' command, it's not needed
- make mythfrontend the last thing (no '&'), add a '&' to blackbox, so:

xset -dpms s off
irxevent &
blackbox &
mythfrontend

like so.  I suppose it might be possible that if you start mythfrontend
before the window manager, weird things could happen.  It's certainly worth
a try.  Plus, this has the added feature of terminating your X session if
mythfrontend dies.  If this is not desired, you can tweak the script to
respawn mythfrontend in an infinite loop, or something like that.

Incidentally, I have a similar setup (using fvwm) with no font problems.
However, my script, instead of living as .xinitrc, lives as
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/MythSession.  I have gdm set up to auto-login the 'tv'
user, with the default session for the 'tv' user defined to be MythSession.
Works fine, except it seems the minimum login delay is 5 seconds for gdm
(but that's only annoying if mythfrontend crashes & the session restarts).

-JAC

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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Robert Kulagowski
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:35 AM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Crappy looking fonts when run from
> autologin/.xinitrc, beautiful fonts when run from KDM/terminal session
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> [Mandrake Cooker system, although I'm not sure that this is a
> Mandrake Cooker specific problem]
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> I've got the following ~/.xinitc:
>
> xset -dpms s off &
> irxevent &
> mythfrontend &
> blackbox
>
> And autologin is set.  When the box reboots it automatically starts
> as the mythtv user, and mythfrontend comes up.  The issue is that the
> fonts for the opening screen (and others) are _tiny_.
>
> Now, if I exit out of mythfrontend, then exit out of blackbox, I get
> taken to the KDM login screen.  If I login as mythtv with blackbox as
> the WM, open a terminal session and type the above commands,
> mythfrontend comes up in all of its beautiful glory.
>
> I've tried to add:
> export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/q
> t3/bin:/home/mythtv/bin
> export QT_XFT=1
>
> to the top of the file, but it's still not looking right.  Any
> thoughts / suggestions?