[mythtv-users] ratpoison

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Henk Poley wrote:

>Someone here advised to use ratpoison some time ago, and I must say, it's a 
>swift lightweight windowmanager. Just add "exec mythfrontend" to 
>~/.ratpoisonrc (copy the rest from /etc/ratpoisonrc) and it works :-)
>
>It even fixed my problems with mplayer/xine/ogle focus on recent XFCE4 
>versions (4.0.4/4.0.5).
>
>But I have one embarassing question... How do I exit the thing? What key-combo 
>is "C-t"? Not that I really need to, since mythbackend basicly brings down 
>the whole machine anyways. But well...
>
>  
>
I use an .xsession file that launches startmythtv which looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms s off
ratpoison &
irxevent &
irexec &
mythfrontend > /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log 2>> 
/var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.error.log

That way exiting the mythfrontend causes X to exit.