[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend startup beautification

[Mike Perkins]

On 19/11/14 15:43, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> 2014-11-19 16:30 GMT+01:00 Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>:
>
>> On 19/11/14 14:49, 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 ?
>>>
>>>   It is possible that you'll never get rid of some of that since it is
>> interaction between your video card and your TV.
>>
>> For example, mine goes through the grub boot-up sequence - and I'll add
>> here that I deliberately leave the startup console visible since I want to
>> know if something goes wrong - and then the TV switches to all blue for a
>> while when the HDMI signal disappears. After about 2-5 seconds it goes
>> black as the card goes from text to graphic mode and then the main menu
>> appears.
>>
>> I'm also using LXDE and I have never seen the desktop.
>>
>> You haven't told us which distribution you're using: I know there are
>> splash screens available for most these days.
>
> My distro is fedora 20 x86_64.
>
> Do you use lxde as a window manager, or do you only use lxdm and boot
> straight into mythfrontend ?
> ( thus using only lxdm+mythfrontend and no lxde )
> I can't get the last option to work on fedora 20.
>
> Rob
>
As far as I'm aware I'm using the basic desktop. This is a stock Debian build so 
I just have task-lxde installed. It is a dedicated front-end so I boot straight 
into mythfrontend, but the desktop means I have an option to run a terminal 
window if I have to, that's all. The box is powerful enough I'm not worried 
about the overhead.

As a note to other responders, I'm also happy to shut down my box when I'm not 
using it. I don't mind the odd ~40 seconds it takes to boot up and we don't tend 
to spend all day watching recordings so sleep options would be over engineering 
our requirements.

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Mike Perkins