[mythtv-users] xfce4 mythfrontend autostart

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 02:28:35 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Ben Coleman <arrikhan_mail at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Does this setup avoid showing the desktop loadup then starting mythfrontend?
>
> I setup autologin and then used gnome's auto startup function (will have to
> dig up what it was but found it searching around for a similar task to
> windows startup folder)....... but it has to load the desktop, then load the
> app on top which is a bit ugly. Trying to remove the wife ugliness factor by
> limiting what is seen at bootup!
>
> It would be nicer to make this more look like a 'blackbox'.

I got closer to this by using fluxbox without any panel. I could still
get to all the programs and setting through a right click.

Recently I upgraded to F10 so I decided to see what LXDE was like.
It's a very responsive DE and I really like it so far.

Richard


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