[mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits

[Matt Mossholder]

I don't know why everyone keeps focusing on restarting myth, when what
is actually needed is to solve the root cause as mentioned here:

"But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many 
exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt."

All you need to do is tell the front end that the key to quit the front
end is different from the "exit" key. This is done by going to
Settings->General, and on the 4th screen, the top item ("System Exit
Key"), change the key that is used to exit the front end to something
other than Esc.

		--Matt




On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:20 -0500, MythTV wrote:
> Jarod's how-to under Tips and Tricks "Make Myth more Wife friendly"
> (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php) has a technique to make a button the
> remote restart the frontend.
> 
> - Todd
> 
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> Subject: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits
> 
>     Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:50:07 -0800
>     From: John Biundo <johnbiundo at sbcglobal.net>
> 
>     Hi all.
> 
>     I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running 
>     mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession).  No problem there.
> 
>     But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many 
>     exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt.
> 
>     After futzing with inittab to try to get this working, and googling 
>     around along a bunch of wild goose chases, I'm throwing my hands up and 
>     beseeching the gurus how to do this.