[mythtv-users] how to delay mythfrontend startup

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Gabe,

Saturday, September 20, 2014, 3:36:30 AM, you wrote:

> Hi all,

> I use ratpoison as my windows manager and have it autostart
> mythfrontend through the .ratpoisonrc file.


> I have an SSD and I think mythfrontend is trying to load before
> mythbackend has started.  When it starts, I get the choose your
> language screen and have to manually restart it.  Is there a simple
> syntax I can add to have to my .ratpoison script to make it wait about 5-10 seconds?


> This is what the contents of my .ratposionrc looks like (note,
> mythrstart.sh is a script I wrote to start mythfrontend with airplay):

> [mythtv at Mythbox ~]$ more .ratpoisonrc
> #Make escape (default C-t) not clash with mythTV key bindings
> escape C-r
> #Banish the mouse cursor out of the way.
> addhook switchwin banish

> exec /usr/bin/xset -dpms >/dev/null
> exec /usr/bin/xset s off >/dev/null
> exec /usr/bin/mythstart.sh
> exec /usr/bin/irexec

Put a sleep command at the start.
For instand: sleep 2 to wait 2 seconds.

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