<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ashley Bostock</b> <<a href="mailto:abostock@gmail.com">abostock@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Don't try using myth without a window manager if you plan on launching external apps such as xine for mythvideo, you'll most likely end up with focus issues.<br><br>Ash.</div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c3866da943607e_1">
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Paul Pick</b> <<a href="mailto:paul.pick@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">paul.pick@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> 1) On-boot loading screens (the one where it's starting services etc)<br><br>I believe that's rhgb. You can either 'rpm -e rhgb' or just remove<br>it from your kernel options grub.conf.<br><br>> 2) GDM Login window
<br>...<br>> 3) Replace the mouse cursor with a 1px black dot, or better yet, get<br>> rid of it completely<br><br>Check out the wiki page for autologins:<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login</a><br><br>...and then ask yourself if you really need a display manager<br>(gdm) or a window manager (ratpoison) at all. Doing without them<br>will certainly speed up your power-on-to-mythfrontend time.
<br><br>> # chkconfig --list | grep on<br><br>I think you'll find "chkconfig --list|grep 5:on" will filter some<br>of the cruft.<br><br>Nothing really jumps out of that list. Obviously, if you don't<br>use something (httpd, nfs*, bluetooth, etc) then disable it.
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http://packrat.dnsalias.org/</a><br>==============================</blockquote></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br><br>However, there's no reason to actually SEE the window manager. Depending on which you use, there should be a way to configure it so it pops up for a split second, and then your mythfrontend pops up.
<br><br>As an example, I have this in ~/.xinitrc<br><br>####<br>#Sleep is there because there were issues of the frontend trying to pop up before it was fully initialized<br>sleep 5<br>mythfrontend -l .mythlog &<br>blackbox
<br>####<br><br><br>You probably also want a graphical loader, so you see a nice progress bar instead of a long series of Blah blah [OK], I'm not sure how to add one of those on, because Mandriva comes preconfigured.<br>
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