[mythtv-users] Tips to make my MythTV box feel less like a computer?
Ashley Bostock
abostock at gmail.com
Tue Jul 4 07:17:42 UTC 2006
Don't try using myth without a window manager if you plan on launching
external apps such as xine for mythvideo, you'll most likely end up with
focus issues.
Ash.
On 7/4/06, Paul Pick <paul.pick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 1) On-boot loading screens (the one where it's starting services etc)
>
> I believe that's rhgb. You can either 'rpm -e rhgb' or just remove
> it from your kernel options grub.conf.
>
> > 2) GDM Login window
> ...
> > 3) Replace the mouse cursor with a 1px black dot, or better yet, get
> > rid of it completely
>
> Check out the wiki page for autologins:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login
>
> ...and then ask yourself if you really need a display manager
> (gdm) or a window manager (ratpoison) at all. Doing without them
> will certainly speed up your power-on-to-mythfrontend time.
>
> > # chkconfig --list | grep on
>
> I think you'll find "chkconfig --list|grep 5:on" will filter some
> of the cruft.
>
> Nothing really jumps out of that list. Obviously, if you don't
> use something (httpd, nfs*, bluetooth, etc) then disable it.
> If sendmail takes a very long time to start then perhaps you
> have hostname-not-resolvable problems.
>
> --
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