[mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 11 20:36:33 UTC 2006


Matt Mossholder wrote:

>I don't know why everyone keeps focusing on restarting myth, when what
>is actually needed is to solve the root cause as mentioned here:
>
>"But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many 
>exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt."
>
>All you need to do is tell the front end that the key to quit the front
>end is different from the "exit" key. This is done by going to
>Settings->General, and on the 4th screen, the top item ("System Exit
>Key"), change the key that is used to exit the front end to something
>other than Esc.
>
>  
>
This is the BEST solution!

Best to try Alt-Esc first if you're on KDE. Ctrl-Esc defaults to the 
Process Table of KDE System Guard (unless you've changed it.)

>
>
>
>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:20 -0500, MythTV wrote:
>  
>
>>Jarod's how-to under Tips and Tricks "Make Myth more Wife friendly"
>>(http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php) has a technique to make a button the
>>remote restart the frontend.
>>
>>- Todd
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of
>>f-myth-users at media.mit.edu
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:16 PM
>>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>Cc: f-myth-users at media.mit.edu
>>Subject: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits
>>
>>    Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:50:07 -0800
>>    From: John Biundo <johnbiundo at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>>    Hi all.
>>
>>    I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running 
>>    mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession).  No problem there.
>>
>>    But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many 
>>    exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt.
>>
>>    After futzing with inittab to try to get this working, and googling 
>>    around along a bunch of wild goose chases, I'm throwing my hands up and 
>>    beseeching the gurus how to do this
>>



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