[mythtv-users] Starting Myth TV without desktop environment (ie KDE) using WindowMaker instead.

Jim Chandler jim at n0vh.org
Wed Jan 14 14:13:01 EST 2004


Here a first cut of what I did under RedHat 9.  Jason's going to post them
to the instructions at some point.  If you use them, please provide
feedback.

login in about 2 sec as opposed to about 15-20 for KDE.

Jim

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:19:04 -0500 (EST)
Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Andy Grundman wrote:
> > Here's what I do.  This might work better if you don't feel like 
> > installing Gnome to get gdm.
> > 
> > At the bottom of your startup file (I use Gentoo so it's 
> > /etc/conf.d/local.start):
> > while 1; do su - mythtv -l -c '/usr/X11R6/bin/startx -- -dpi 100';
> > done
> 
> I tried this (on Fedora Core 1) because I liked the idea of eliminating 
> the overhead of gdm... however, I kept running into console permission 
> problems because of the non-root user starting startx.  I read the stuff
> 
> about making changes in /etc/security/console.perms but I never actually
> 
> got it to work.
> 
> -- 
> Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>
> 
> 


-- 
Jim
N0VH
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