[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend Refuses to Start

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Mon Jun 8 18:42:49 UTC 2015



On 6/8/2015 11:21 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> What do you mean by "It just hangs"? I always start mythfrontend
> through a shellscript in an xterm. That way I can easily alt-tab to
> the log. And the shell script has a loop with a menu so I can simply
> restart or other. Never had any trouble there. The xterm/shellscript
> is in my .xinitrc.
>
> Can you start other programs in that xterm? If you use a minimalistic
> WM ore none at all you might have to do some setting on the
> environment xterm is using.
>
>
>


Figured it out. I had the screen painter set to Auto. I set it to qt and 
the frontend now runs just fine from xterm.


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