[mythtv-users] Help with wife issues (multiple front ends start)
Brian Walter
blwalter at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 17:42:44 UTC 2007
Trey Thompson wrote:
> Well, I tried out BeyondTV for a week or so, and I have to say...
> "NOT GONNA DO IT! WOULDN'T BE PRUDENT!"
> We just love the features Myth has! :)
>
> The one thing is that really bothering the wife, is that on bootup,
> two copies of the Frontend are starting up, one on top of the other.
> So, sometimes one of them is playing a video, and somehow the window
> switches, and the other one is playing, all while the backend is
> recording, and the system grinds to a non-workable slowness. So, she
> just hits the reset button (OUCH!), which starts clean, but there are
> still two copies of the frontend running...
>
> I am autologging on as mythtv, and this is in my
> .kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh
>
> ============================================
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # Only do this stuff if we're on the main display
> # (i.e., don't do this in a vnc session)
> if [ `echo $DISPLAY | grep -c ":0"` -ge 1 ]
> then
> # Launch myth frontend
> xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0
> mythfrontend &
> # Disable dynamic power management (screen blanking)
> #/usr/bin/xset -dpms
> # Disable screen saver
> /usr/bin/xset s off
> fi
> exit
>
> ====================================================
>
>
> This appeared (or more accurately, I screwed this up), when at the
> same time, I lost a BUNCH of menu items from the "Start" menu. Things
> like Administration, Utilities, Control Center, etc... are all gone!
> Also, some how the "Process Table" also starts up automatically.
>
> What could I have done that fubarred this?
Wow...you get the process table as well. I thought it was some
'history' I had from the logins past.
You don't happen to have any other startups for mythfrontend in any of
the .bash related scripts?
Brian
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