[mythtv-users] Fedora 15 gnome activities auto start issue
Mike Perkins
mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Wed Aug 17 16:59:59 UTC 2011
On 17/08/11 16:21, Rodney Morris wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Billy Macdonald
> <toastyfries at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Myth Users.
>> So I decided to upgrade to Fedora 15 and the latest 24.1 fixes. I see
>> to have almost everything working and there have been some learning curves
>> with the new Gnome 3 shell and systemd and whatnot. But my last hurdle is
>> when it auto logs in, the activities panel or whatever it's called is
>> active. I end up with mythfrontend running in a little window. Once I
>> click on it it goes full screen, but the dedicated frontends won't have a
>> mouse to click on the window. Anyone know how to configure gnome so that
>> the activities thing isn't selected at login?
>> Thanks,
>> Will
>
> Any particular reason you are using Gnome 3 shell? Have you
> considered using something lighter than gnome 3 shell, like xfce or
> lxde? Both are in the fedora repositories. I currently use lxde for
> the autologin user on my fedora based combined fe/be. LXDE works
> great for the task.
>
Yep. If this is a dedicated front end, which I'm guessing it is if you won't
have a mouse, you shouldn't bother with Gnome at all. It's just using resources
myth can make better use of.
--
Mike Perkins
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