How about changing the X root background (temporarily) to this remote
image, then 'hiding' mythtv by minimising or backgrounding etc (can
you do that).

Dave


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:46:15 +1100, Phill Edwards
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > G'day all,
> > Is anyone using bootsplash?
> > Does anyone know of a mythtv bootsplash theme?
> > What about background images (ie. to use as X root image while mfe is
> > loading)? or any other mythtv artwork which might be useful in
> > creating a bootsplash theme.
> >
> > I'm in the 'polishing' stage of my mythbox building.... software
> > suspend 2 seems to be working nicely for me, as does nvram-wakeup.
> > Bootsplash combined with swsusp2 would make for a snappy and
> > attractive bootup.
> 
> I'm not using bootsplash. I'm on FC2 and it uses grub boot loader. By
> default that did a graphical boot which I removed as I like to see all
> the messages when it's booting up. I did create a background image
> which I display during the window manager startup which is a MythTV
> image with some text saying "Press xxx on the remote to start MythTV"
> - nicer than a blank screen.
> 
> I've been wondering what would be a good way of taking this further by
> popping up a screen which shows a picture of the remote with some text
> describing each button - just a static image, nothing fancy. What prog
> could be used to pop up the image over MythTV - it needs to do it
> pretty much instantly so a web browser is out - and could it be
> programmed to go away by pressing any button on the remote (presumably
> it could if it had lirc built in rather than relying on irexevent)?
> 
> Regards,
> Phill
>
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