[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend startup beautification

[Rob Verduijn]

My frontend is behind a standby-killer, so there will be no power for
suspend to ram a couple seconds after the main screen goes to standby.
And I'm not sure that coming back from hd suspend is actually faster than a
cold boot.

Rob

2014-11-19 16:03 GMT+01:00 Dan Wilga <
mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu>:

> On 11/19/14 9:49 AM, Rob Verduijn wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> After recently reinstalling my mythtv frontend and then tuning the
>> startup down to several seconds (<10 from 0 to mythdesktop)  there is still
>> something that bothers me.
>>
>> all the screens flashing by while the system boots
>> * ugly ascii grub (because of the nvidia drivers there is no nice
>> animation)
>> * ugly ascii bar filling up (again nvidia drivers to blame)
>> * lxde desktop popping up for a very short tim
>> * white screen hiding the lxde desktop
>> * black screen hiding the white screen
>> * mythtv screen building up.
>>
>> does anybody know how to dump a splash screen over it (animated hourglass
>> or something like it ) to hide all that untill the frontend is ready for
>> action ?
>>
>>  Personally, I use suspend to RAM rather than actually shutting down my
> frontends. I still restart X and mythfrontend when resuming, but that
> definitely lessens the ugliness. During suspend, I use this line in irexec:
>
>     config = killall mythfrontend; echo -n "mem" >/sys/power/state;
> /etc/init.d/lirc restart; /usr/bin/irexec -d /home/mythtv/.lircrc; killall
> gnome-keyring-daemon; killall Xorg
>
> Everything after 'echo -n "mem" >/sys/power/state' gets run upon resume.
> Restarting lircd is necessary, because otherwise it stops responding. The
> 'killall gnome-keyring-daemon' command is there because I found X was
> leaving these processes hanging around otherwise. The final 'killall Xorg'
> stops X and then it gets restarted automatically because my runlevel is 5.
> mythfrontend is setup such that it starts whenever X starts.
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