gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote: > Mike Daugird wrote: > >> I just installed knoppmyth and I want to know why use gdm with QT? >> don't you need a base kde install to have it work? > > > to have which work? Qt is a dependency of KDE, so it obviously can't > require KDE ... GDM is the GNOME Desktop Manager, which means it uses > GNOME libraries, which include GTK+ .. it doesn't mean you're running > the whole GNOME Desktop, so don't worry as much about it taking up > resources, it's small compared to the whole GNOME desktop ... > > On the other hand, if you'd rather stick to one major toolkit (Qt), > you can run XDM, which is part of X (it's the "X Desktop Manager") ... > i don't know if it is as flexible as GDM, i haven't used it in years > ... personally, i think i use KDM (mostly because my FE used to be a > desktop and I preferred KDE), so i don't have to load GTK+ (or even > have it installed) ... it does require kdelibs, but again, it's not > like you're running the full KDE
and... Knoppmyth is a carefully selected set of packages that allow you to run a dedicated myth box. Honestly, why do you really care that they selected gdm? Since it uses autologin it only ever appears if Myth crashes... If you think you can justify a better approach then you should be talking to the knoppmyth dev team. If, on the other hand, you're using it as a desktop then maybe knoppmyth isn't the best starting point? Personally, if you want a minimal login/startup system then I think they'd do better with a line like this: 6:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin mythtv tty6 in /etc/inittab and this in the myth user's ~/.profile: [ `tty` = '/dev/tty6' ] && exec /usr/bin/X11/startx /usr/bin/mythfrontend -v 255 2>&1 > ~/myth.log [ -f .aliases ] && . .aliases [ -f .prompt ] && . .prompt which is how I do it on my frontend. David _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
