[mythtv-users] Can I run mythtv without KDE or any desktop

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Donald McLennan wrote:

> Hi,
> Can I run mythtv without the overhead of a windowing desktop?  I can't 
> see any reason why I need the Fedora graphical boot and KDE running 
> just so I can run mythtv.

Well the Fedora graphical boot looks a lot nicer on a TV than normal 
text booting does.  But that doesn't have anything to do with KDE.

You can use gdmsetup to allow mythtv to automagicly login  and use an 
xsession file to control what gets started up.  You do want some sort of 
window manager, personally I use "ratpoison" it's tiny.


>  How is the best way to boot without KDE (or other desktop) and still 
> have the required xserver running.  I'm running Redhat Fedora.
>  

I'm attaching my startmythtv script that gets called from mythtvs 
xsession file.
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#!/bin/sh
xset -dpms s off 
ratpoison &
irxevent &
irexec &
mythfrontend > /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log 2>> /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.error.log