I wonder if this is more complex than it needs to be. How about getting X to run on bootup straight into mythfrontend.
a startup script might contain (eg via /etc/init.d/local) su - mythtv -c startx and ~mythtv/.xinitrc contains: exec mythfrontend Personally I am going to use the "power" button on my remote to trigger /sbin/halt for turning off. On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:05:51 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. > Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have > the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login > screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use > that. xdm seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown. > > Thanks, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
