[mythtv-users] Preventing MythTV from Exiting

Paul Harrison mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Jun 13 13:24:12 UTC 2006


Pierre Rochefort wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I'm building a dedicated PC for MythTV. Everything is working fine and 
> MythTV is really a great piece of software.
>  
> What I can't figure out is how to prevent MythTV from exiting. Once a 
> user exits, the only way to get back in is to dig up the keyboard and 
> restart the front end. I was able to get it to restart automatically 
> but I would rather prevent it from exiting in the first place. If this 
> is in the documentation, I haven't found it yet.
>  
> Anyone has ideas on how to get this done?
> Thank you in advance.
> Pierre

If you mean you don't want user to be able to exit mythfrontend from the 
menu. All you need to do is set the System Exit Key to 'No Exit Key' on 
the general settings page that way the user will never see the 'Do you 
really want to exit MythTV' screen.

Paul H.



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