[mythtv-users] MythTV stops computer from shutting down when running in background

[Odysseus Flappington]

On 24/09/2008, Odysseus Flappington <deriziotis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help. I've added the request to the end of
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Feature_Wishlist_(Frontend_Addons)<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Feature_Wishlist_%28Frontend_Addons%29>
> .
>
> Also, thanks for the workaround, I've currently been running mythfrontend
> in a wrapper script which runs mythfrontend and then /sbin/poweroff, which
> gives me back my shutting down button- however, it still makes the reboot
> button shutdown the computer instead of rebooting.
>
> Maybe I'll stumble across something better at some point in the future.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> On 24/09/2008, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Can anyone think of any workarounds to solve this? Perhaps a bug-report
>> to
>> > add an option to make MyhTV act more ilke a regular desktop application?
>>
>>
>> I'd call it a feature request if I were you, and there's somewhere on
>> the wiki for it to go.
>>
>> If you report it as a bug I'm pretty sure it would get rejected, with
>> a comment along the lines of 'unimplemented features are not bugs'.
>>
>> As far as workarounds go, you could configure the backend to shut the
>> system down on idle.  Then, closing the frontent would cause the
>> machine to shutdown, providing nothing was being recorded at the time.
>>   Still not quite the same as a regular desktop application but then
>> MythTV isn't trying to be one.  It's trying to be a PVR.
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>
Just an update on this issue. I managed to find a better way to work around
this in the end. Here's a HOWTO I've put together in case anyone else
stumbles across it in the future:

http://jackflapb.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/howto-workaround-mythtvs-screwy-shutdownrebootlogout-behaviour-when-running-as-a-desktop-application/

Regards,
Alex
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