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

[Carrison, Stuart]

You can change the key used to exit mythtfrontend.

I use ALT+ESC because it isn't mapped to a remote button (on my system)

Check the utils/setup menu in the front end 

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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.

If I understand you correctly, you might try putting something like this
in mythtv's .xsession:

while [ 1 ]
do
  mythfrontend
done

That way, if the frontend exits for any reason, it'll instantly restart
itself.  (It -also- means you can't log out of mythtv on the X display
directly; you'd have to kill the process running the "while" loop, or
one of its parents, to actually kill the frontend; presumably you'd do
this by ssh'ing in from somewhere else---note that a cleaner way would
be to make the loop check for the existence of some file, and then just
delete the file (again, from somewhere
else) and -then- exiting the frontend won't cause it to respawn.)

I did this when I was repeatedly restarting the frontend to get various
overscan/positioning parameters set correctly (via trial and error), and
it was so useful I just left it in place.
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