[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend startup beautification

[Rob Verduijn]

My distro is fedora 20 x86_64.

Dyou use lxde as a window manager, or do you only use lxdm and boot
straight into mythfrontend ?
( thus using only lxdm+mythfrontend and no lxde )
I can't get the last option to work on fedora 20.

Rob

Rob

2014-11-19 16:30 GMT+01:00 Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>:

> On 19/11/14 14:49, 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 ?
>>
>>  It is possible that you'll never get rid of some of that since it is
> interaction between your video card and your TV.
>
> For example, mine goes through the grub boot-up sequence - and I'll add
> here that I deliberately leave the startup console visible since I want to
> know if something goes wrong - and then the TV switches to all blue for a
> while when the HDMI signal disappears. After about 2-5 seconds it goes
> black as the card goes from text to graphic mode and then the main menu
> appears.
>
> I'm also using LXDE and I have never seen the desktop.
>
> You haven't told us which distribution you're using: I know there are
> splash screens available for most these days.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
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