[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend startup beautification

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Rob,

Wednesday, November 19, 2014, 4:39:51 PM, you wrote:

> My frontend is behind a standby-killer, so there will be no power
> for suspend to ram a couple seconds after the main screen goes to standby.
> And I'm not sure that coming back from hd suspend is actually faster than a cold boot.
It is at least 4 times faster. This of cause depending on all the
different speed factors and how much you load on startup. Suspending
to a swap partition on a sdd should be fastest.



> Rob



> 2014-11-19 16:03 GMT+01:00 Dan Wilga
> <mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu>:

> On 11/19/14 9:49 AM, Rob Verduijn wrote:
>  
>  Hello all,
>  
>  After recently reinstalling my mythtv frontend and then tuning the
> startup down to several seconds (<10 from 0 to mythdesktop)  there
> is still something that bothers me.
>  
>  all the screens flashing by while the system boots
>  * ugly ascii grub (because of the nvidia drivers there is no nice animation)
>  * ugly ascii bar filling up (again nvidia drivers to blame)
>  * lxde desktop popping up for a very short tim
>  * white screen hiding the lxde desktop
>  * black screen hiding the white screen
>  * mythtv screen building up.
>  
>  does anybody know how to dump a splash screen over it (animated
> hourglass or something like it ) to hide all that untill the frontend is ready for action ?
>  
>  


>  Personally, I use suspend to RAM rather than actually shutting
> down my frontends. I still restart X and mythfrontend when resuming,
> but that definitely lessens the ugliness. During suspend, I use this line in irexec:
>  
>      config = killall mythfrontend; echo -n "mem"
> >/sys/power/state; /etc/init.d/lirc restart; /usr/bin/irexec -d
> /home/mythtv/.lircrc; killall gnome-keyring-daemon; killall Xorg
>  
>  Everything after 'echo -n "mem" >/sys/power/state' gets run upon
> resume. Restarting lircd is necessary, because otherwise it stops
> responding. The 'killall gnome-keyring-daemon' command is there
> because I found X was leaving these processes hanging around
> otherwise. The final 'killall Xorg' stops X and then it gets
> restarted automatically because my runlevel is 5. mythfrontend is
> setup such that it starts whenever X starts.
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