[mythtv-users] program remote's power key to stop mythfrontend?

[Jo Shields]

David Watkins wrote:

>On 22/09/05, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:03 -0700, Mark Kundinger wrote:
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>>>You can have a shell script that responds to the power key and kills
>>>the frontend:
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>>Yeah.  I have something similar.  Killing off mythfrontend just so
>>"coarse".
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>AFAIK there's no reason why killing the frontend should prevent it
>making a graceful exit.
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>I thought that was what kill -9 was for.
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I was annoyed enough by the lack of reasonable method for quitting 
mythfrontend with a remote, that I made some patches to handle it - 
added another event called SHUTDOWN, and assigned it to my remote's 
power button - which then gived a (modified) menu of Cancel or Exit & 
Shutdown.

I didn't bother sending the patches upstream, as they're for libmyth, 
which is being made obsolete.

--Jo Shields