[mythtv-users] Re: autostarting mythfrontend under GNOME?

[Mario L]

or you could always go for the more lightweight but still using gtk2 xfce4.2


On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:34:10 -0500, Bryan Halter
<bhalter at armyofpenguins.com> wrote:
> Thom Sturgill wrote:
> 
> >Not to beat a dead horse too badly, but determining whether you are in an
> >xterm is trivial.
> >
> >.bash_profile:
> >
> >   if [ "$TERM" != "xterm" ]
> >   then
> >      ./startmyth &
> >   fi
> >
> >then write a simple startmyth script (make sure its executable):
> >
> >   #!/bin/bash
> >
> >   sleep 10  # let gnome finish startup
> >   /usr/bin/mythfrontend
> >
> >Of course adding it to .xsession works equally, but more people are adept
> >at scripts than configuring X.
> >
> >- Thom
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thom Sturgill <tsturgil at ircc.net > writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:38:59AM -0500, Thom Sturgill wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>docs are on autostarting mythfrontend under KDE, any way to do that
> >>>>>>under GNOME, too?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>What's wrong with calling it from .bash_profile ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>I really like mythfrontend, but not as much as to call a copy of it on
> >>>>each invocation of the bash :)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>In other words, unless bash is executed with the specific -l or --login
> >>>argument, these files are ONLY executed at login.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Right:  including login via ssh, for example!  I doubt Alex wants
> >>one copy running for each login.  He wants one for each X session.
> >>Completely different beast.
> >>
> >>I use .xsession.  .xinitrc might work too.  But I don't know about
> >>Gnome.
> >>
> >>Dan
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >
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> My question (I'm actually curious) is why Gnome?  Why not use something
> lightweight like Ratpoison and just at "exec mythfrontend" to the
> .xinitc.  Gnome is awfully heavy just to run mythfrontend.
> 
> --
> Bryan Halter
> bhalter at armyofpenguins.com 
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