[mythtv-users] ratpoison/mythfrontend issues.

[Rob Verduijn]

Hello,

Thanx for the tips.
I've switched the displaymanager to lxdm and windowmanager to lxde.
Removed all the autostart programs leaving only mythfrontend.
Disabled akmod (I'll run it manually when an update occurs).
And now I got a mythtvdesktop in about 10 seconds boot time.
Rob

2014-11-19 19:39 GMT+01:00 Michael A Weber <mweberjunk01 at gmail.com>:

>
> On Nov 18, 2014, at 2:40 AM, Rob Verduijn <rob.verduijn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've recently reinstalled my mythtv living room frontend.
> It's now running fedora with kdm as display manager and kde as a window
> manager.
>
> However, I've find that these take some time before I see my familiar
> mythtv screen. (no surprise here)
>
> So I tried to set the display manager to mythfrontend (used to work fine
> for me) , and I can see it start in the logs but after a while the screen
> stays black.
> I figured that it could be caused because this is a non-supported setup,
> so I tried adding ratpoison as a window manager, but the screen still stays
> black.
>
> This was the fully automated login and mythtv startup.
> When I do a manual login into ratpoison desktop.
> Launch an xterm and start mythfrontend, and it works.
>
> This makes me think this is not related to mythfrontend without window
> manager, but rather an option used to launch mythfrontend.
>
> Anybody who has run into this and managed to get it to work ?
> I would like to improve my boot time, it seems to take forever when you
> are waiting for it.
> (for real its about 18(ish) seconds untill the mythtv menu appears)
>
> Rob
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> Rob—
>
> I’m not running Fedora and the likes, but rather CentOS (6.5 IIRC) and use
> ratpoison as my window manager.
>
> I only use ratpoison in run level 3, which is where it goes at boot by
> default and for typical mythtv fronted.  Something tells me that when I set
> this up, I had something happening that required the “sleep 10” statements,
> but not sure if this was it.
>
> If something goes wrong and it crashes, I go to a solid black screen and
> can’t do anything but SSH into it and reboot it.  If I change run levels
> from an SSH session to 5 and then back to 3, I get a solid black screen
> again.  The only thing I can do is bring it up from boot and it works.
>
> I don’t think anything is strange or out of the ordinary, but here is my
> .xinitrc file:
>
>
>
> sleep 10
> xset -dpms
> xset s off
> xset -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0
> xsetroot -solid black
> if [ `runlevel | tail -c 2 | head -c 1` = "3" ]
> then
> ratpoison &
> while [ ! -f "/var/lock/subsys/mythbackend" ]; do
>   sleep 2
> done
> sleep 10
> mythfrontend > /home/mythtv/mythfrontend.log 2>&1
> fi
>
>
>
> and my .ratpoisonrc file:
>
>
>
> # This is a sample .ratpoisonrc file
> #
> # Set the prefix key to that of screen's default
> escape C-r
>
> # put something informative on the screen while we load stuff
> exec xloadimage -onroot -quiet -center /home/mythtv/.mythtv/mythtvstart.jpg
>
> # Gets rid of that ugly crosshairs default cursor and set the background
> to black
> exec xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
>
> # Use the name of the program rather than the title in the window list
> defwinname name
>
> ### fire up an xterm with ctrl-A x
> bind x exec xterm -j -fn '*-courier-*-r-*-14-*'
>
> # Since running a 720x576 definition the ratpoison screens are too big for
> the
> # display so we reduce the size of them with defpadding to make them fit
> #defpadding 25 25 25 25
>
> keystate_numlock = enable
>
>
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>
>
> Hopefully you get it working!  Good luck.
>
> Mike
>
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