You can change the key used to exit mythtfrontend. I use ALT+ESC because it isn't mapped to a remote button (on my system)
Check the utils/setup menu in the front end -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 January 2006 04:16 To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:50:07 -0800 From: John Biundo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all. I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession). No problem there. But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt. After futzing with inittab to try to get this working, and googling around along a bunch of wild goose chases, I'm throwing my hands up and beseeching the gurus how to do this. If I understand you correctly, you might try putting something like this in mythtv's .xsession: while [ 1 ] do mythfrontend done That way, if the frontend exits for any reason, it'll instantly restart itself. (It -also- means you can't log out of mythtv on the X display directly; you'd have to kill the process running the "while" loop, or one of its parents, to actually kill the frontend; presumably you'd do this by ssh'ing in from somewhere else---note that a cleaner way would be to make the loop check for the existence of some file, and then just delete the file (again, from somewhere else) and -then- exiting the frontend won't cause it to respawn.) I did this when I was repeatedly restarting the frontend to get various overscan/positioning parameters set correctly (via trial and error), and it was so useful I just left it in place. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
