[mythtv-users] mythtv frontend startup beautification

[Rob Verduijn]

Hi all,

A screensaver reminded me that I forgot to turn off something.
Then while figuring out how to disable the screensaver I noticed a couple
more default programs that I could do without (all of them)
The file  /etc/xdg/lxdesktop/LXDE/autostart is now an empty file.
lxpanel, pcmanfm, xscreensaver
the first 2 also explain why I still saw a desktop, that's gone now. :-P
And a couple more milliseconds boot time improvement as an additional bonus
 (a very small one though :P )

Rob

2014-11-19 19:20 GMT+01:00 Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>:

> 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.
>
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
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