Wow... you write alot! :) On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Ville Aakko <ville.aa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! > > 2009/2/20 Alex Betis <alex.be...@gmail.com>: > > Hi all, > > > > I wonder what am I doing wrong. > > > > The problem is that when this script is run in background (& at the end), > > the job is shown as "stopped". > > I've tried to run vdr-sxfe itself in background, it opens the window and > the > > job stops. > > I know there is a switch that will run it in daemon mode, but that's not > > that good for the script I want to have. > > I think I hit the problem you are having before, but in my current > solution I do not need to face it. Currently, I log in automatically > via kdm, which loads KDE (could be xfce or whatever you want, though I > haven't tested because currently I want to use KDE) and automatically > runs a script (~/.kde/Autostart/vdr-sxfe.sh) that starts vdr-sxfe. I I use gnome with auto login and it runs my vdr-sxfe.sh script as well. > > don't background the vdr-sxfe.sh process in the script. I have two Me too. In that case everything works fine, even if I kill the vdr-sxfe process and the script restarts it. > > loops there; the second is in case vdr-sxfe crashes, to restart > vdr-sxfe (vdr-sxfe doesn't do that anymore quite often) and the second In my case vdr-sxfe doesn't crash, but it freezes on startup a lot. Restarting it generally helps. > > is for suspend / resume (some parts of lirc/VFD don't like suspend on > my setup). The latter waits from the start of suspend until end of > resume to restart vdr-sxfe. And, also it looks for the errorlevel of How did you implement the wait? With a flag-file that is set in suspend script and deleted after resume? > > vdr-sxfe ehwn it exits; if it is not a "clean" one, it assumes it was > not initiated by the user (and allows automatic shutdowns). Good idea. I planned to kill both vdr-sxfe and vdr-sxfe.sh to use the desktop. I could also swtich to another desktop and leave the frontend running as is. Now we came to the real problem: when I kill the script, how do I restart it so it will run in foreground. > > > Do you really need to background vdr-sxfe the way you try to do it? On > my setup, If I want to exit vdr-sxfe to use the desktop (actually, I > don't need to do that but I can, also this disable automatic shutdowns > on my setup via a kludge) I just press esc on my keyboard to shutdown > vdr-sxfe (this leaves vdr running in the background). I have bound > another button to restart vdr-sxfe again (to enable automatic > shutdowns etc.). You could kill all running vdr-sxfe sessions > whenever you run the script again (so that would actually work as a > restart, too, Though, I don't need restarting vdr-sxfe, so I haven't > done it). I can send my script if you need it. Do you restart vdr-sxfe or the script? I need the script to be restarted and run in foreground. I didn't try using irexec yet, will try it later today. I hope it doesn't run the commands in background since it will not work for vdr-sxfe. Please send the script, I might learn something from it. Thanks. > > > The rest might be offtopic or not, but I think in general your problem > is related to a lack of documentation / examples / init scripts etc. Agree. > > needed when configuring VDR to display via X (as opposed to a full > featured card or some other deticated output device that doesn't > require X) At least for gentoo there are nice init sciŕipts and > configuration files for VDR and its plugins. But it seems that the > init scripts assume that a user has a full-featured card or another > deticated ouput device for the TV. But if one needs X for the display > instead (which more and more users will be using for several reasons), > I'm still really in the dark how to do that elegantly. Not even the > vdr-sxfe documentation had examples / ideas of ho to achieve the > automation! I.e. I want to have a VDR showing the picture via HDMI > without having to log in and running vdr-sxfe manually every time. > > The problem might actually lie in the several differen't use cases > there are; some setup might only use the X for a deticated VDR, but > some other users would need other software to run under the X session, > too. In my case, I needed VDR to start automatically whenever I push > the power button, but still have an easy way to switch to other > prorams and / or desktop. Of course this is a complicated matter, as > depending on the distribution / init scripts used, VDR might be run as > root or a detidcated user 'vdr', but the additional software would not > be run as such. I found the dilemma very confusing. > > So, I had sevveral questions but no ready solutions / answers; How > should I start X.org / Which user should I run X as? Which user should > run vdr-sxfe (or some other X output backend)? And if I'm not using a > client/server setup, how on earth am I going to start an X session > before the init scripts run VDR, to play along nicely with the init > scripts? Do I need to log in as user 'vdr' (to start an X session) > before running VDR? Is it possible to allow the VDR process (which is > run as the user 'vdr') to connect to a X sessions, which is "owned" by > a different user? > > Currently, I solved this via kdm's features and a script I made myself > to run at the start of a session as a regular user, and chose vdr-sxfe > to run as a client/server solution (this was the only solution I was > able to run at all with the init scripts Gentoo came with). But I feel > the script I made is really a dirty kludge =). > > So I see there might be a need for documentation and solutions / > examples on this kind of setups (at least I didn't find any if there > already are). Can anyone point into such documentation? Does anyone > have any good personal examples? How do you run your VDR with an X11 > output? Do you use the VDR box for other uses? If yes, how do you > integrate the other applications? > > Hope this stirs some conversation =) > > -- > Ville Aakko - ville.aa...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@linuxtv.org > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >
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