[mythtv-users] Is shutdown action of standalone frontendcontrollable?

[Jason Chambers]

On 23/08/2010 01:46, Tortise wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Chambers"
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> To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 6:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Is shutdown action of standalone
> frontendcontrollable?

>
>> There is a settings page (General->Program Exit) to specify what command
> gets run for shutdown & reboot options as well a choice of which options
> are include in the dialog when the user tries to exit.
>
> How does one add the standby option there? This seems the best option
> for a CF FE for me. It would be great if that was an option too?

I don't know of anyway to add another command to the list without 
changing the code.

However I have customized the shutdown command so that it calls "sudo 
pm-suspend" instead of whatever the myth default was originally.

I also configured the power button on the front of the box to call 
"pm-suspend" too via the files in /etc/acpi (see man acpid).

It means there isn't a way to do a proper power down without a 
keyboard/ssh but on the upside there isn't a confusing list of choices 
for other users who have to remember the difference between Shutdown, 
Hibernate, Reboot and the power button.

(pm-suspend is from the pm-utils package in Debian, upstream is 
http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/).

Regards,
Jason