[mythtv-users] Tips to make my MythTV box feel less like a computer?

[Ryan Steffes]

On 7/4/06, Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Don't try using myth without a window manager if you plan on launching
> external apps such as xine for mythvideo, you'll most likely end up with
> focus issues.
>
> Ash.
>
>
> On 7/4/06, Paul Pick <paul.pick at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 1) On-boot loading screens (the one where it's starting services etc)
> >
> > I believe that's rhgb. You can either 'rpm -e rhgb' or just remove
> > it from your kernel options grub.conf.
> >
> > > 2) GDM Login window
> > ...
> > > 3) Replace the mouse cursor with a 1px black dot, or better yet, get
> > > rid of it completely
> >
> > Check out the wiki page for autologins:
> >
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login
> >
> > ...and then ask yourself if you really need a display manager
> > (gdm) or a window manager (ratpoison) at all. Doing without them
> > will certainly speed up your power-on-to-mythfrontend time.
> >
> > > # chkconfig --list | grep on
> >
> > I think you'll find "chkconfig --list|grep 5:on" will filter some
> > of the cruft.
> >
> > Nothing really jumps out of that list. Obviously, if you don't
> > use something (httpd, nfs*, bluetooth, etc) then disable it.
> > If sendmail takes a very long time to start then perhaps you
> > have hostname-not-resolvable problems.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Pick | paul.pick at gmail.com | http://packrat.dnsalias.org/
> > ===============
>
>

However, there's no reason to actually SEE the window manager.  Depending on
which you use, there should be a way to configure it so it pops up for a
split second, and then your mythfrontend pops up.

As an example, I have this in ~/.xinitrc

####
#Sleep is there because there were issues of the frontend trying to pop up
before it was fully initialized
sleep 5
mythfrontend -l .mythlog &
blackbox
####


You probably also want a graphical loader, so you see a nice progress bar
instead of a long series of Blah blah [OK],  I'm not sure how to add one of
those on, because Mandriva comes preconfigured.
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