[mythtv-users] Thinking of switching distros - from Gentoo to Mythbuntu
Justin The Cynical
cynical at penguinness.org
Tue Jul 1 04:20:33 UTC 2008
Josh White wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, James Stembridge <jstembridge at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think the difference here is that if the entire machine "dies" as in,
>>> reboots, it will autologin and go directly into mythfrontend when it
>> starts,
>>> but if the mythfronend application dies, and your left looking at your
>>> desktop, the mythbuntu will not automatically launch a new instance of
>>> mythfrontend, where the Gentoo setup would. Do I have that right?
>> No, I've just tried it and it seems you don't have it right. After
>> killing mythfrontend it drop back to gdm briefly before automatically
>> re-logging in and starting mythfrontend again.
>>
>> This is on hardy with a fairly recent set of weekly mythbuntu packages
>> if that makes any difference.
Ditto on my beta set-up. I can close the front end and I'm presented
with a desktop. If I kill X all together, GDM appears and the
auto-login timer shows up.
If there is a way to kill xfce/X when the frontend dies or is shut down,
I'd like to know it. :-)
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