[mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.19 has escape but no halt?

[Zach Garner]

Well the mythwelcome looked like a perfect solution. It worked fine
through the ssh session I'd been working from but when I logged directly
into mythfrontend via mythwelcome on the PC the frontend worked as
expected but mythwelcome wouldn't recognise any keystrokes. To get around
that I bootstrapped the system with blackbox, which took care of the
keyboard issues, but now shutdown simply freezes mythwelcome.

To be fair, I'm using the atrpms binaries so I can't speak to any possible
compile issues. I'm also swamped so as much as I appreciate the pointers
on modifying source as I recall the compile process for myth and the
assorted plugins is pretty extensive, espacially if you want to keep your
system tidy.

Anyhow, I just wanted to update and thank you again for your help.

FTR the .xinitrc file I've used to get it working is (alsactl to get my
alsa setting back up):

/sbin/alsactl restore &
xset -dpms s off
xsetroot -solid black
mythwelcome &
exec blackbox

In inittab I've used the suggestion posted in the archives here:

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
#x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
7:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin=mythuser tty7







----- Original Message -----

> On 02/26/2006 01:18 AM, Zach Garner wrote:
> > Thanks for the illuminating response. Has anyone found a work around
or am
> > I simply destined to piggyback on a lighter DE?
> >
>
> Ummm.  It's open source.  No need for a work around.  If you don't like
> it, you can change it in your version. ;)
>
> Just delete the lines
>
>     bool frontendOnly = gContext->IsFrontendOnly();
>
> and
>
>     if (frontendOnly)
>
> (on or about lines 459 and 466 of programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp).
> Then, recompile and enjoy.
>
> Or, even better, check out MythWelcome/MythShutdown (see
> programs/mythwelcome/README) and you can probably use stock versions
> (even pre-compiled binary versions) and still have your machine shut
> down--even automatically.
>
> Mike
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