[mythtv-users] Autostart frontend ONLY on manual startup?

[Sean G]

Lane,

I have something similar to that, on boot I startx
then using .xinitrc I display a xmessage box asking
Start Myth.  When you want to use myth, press enter on
the remote to start it up.

To do this I replaced the startup of X in the init.d
scripts with this

#! /bin/sh

su mythtv -c "startx > /var/tmp/startx.log &" &

This starts X with a window manager, as userid mythtv

Then in the mythtv home directory created this
.xinitrc file to do the other steps required

xset -dpms s off &
# xclock
mwm &
irxevent &
irexec &
nvidia-settings -l
while :;
do
xmessage -font 12x24romankana -buttons "Start Myth
TV:1" -center -default "Start Myth TV" MythTV
mythfrontend -l /var/tmp/mythfrontend.log

done

This starts the mwm window manager, lirc programs,
settings from my nvidia card, then the xmessage /
mythfrontend loop.

To shutdown the machine, just exit mythfrontend, then
when the backend is idle, it will autoshutdown.

Sean


 --- Druid <mythtv-users at fastdruid.co.uk> wrote: 
> Lane wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone figured out an elegant way to do the
> following:
> 
> >- Have Myth frontend start up automatically if and
> only if the machine
> >was started manually
> 
> Yes, PoP and something that I was planning to do
> this weekend.
> 
> Basicly I am planning to  change the shutdown
> command to run a script
> which would set a value (probably write it to the
> mythconverg database
> but it could be as simple as putting the wakeup time
> in a file) then
> shutdown.
> The script that starts the frontend then would look
> at this value and
> if the current time was within a specified amount of
> that time then don't
> start the frontend, if it's way out then start the
> frontend.
> 
> I'll post the scripts when I've finished if anyone's
> interested.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Druid
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