On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:50 PM, John Biundo wrote: > 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. > > I'm running KDE. Don't want to give it up (unless I absolutely > have to). > > Putting a line like: m7:2345:respawn:/bin/su - mythtv -c /usr/bin/ > startx > in my /etc/inittab doesn't work. When I test it, by exiting from > mythtv, this method fails with a message about the user not being > allowed to start the x server. Which puzzles me because user > mythtv IS > allowed to run startx, and the command line 'su -mythtv -c > /usr/bin/startx' works fine when I'm logged in as root. > > What am I missing? How do other people handle this? > > Thanks! > > cheers, > john
You can have MythTV prompt you when you exit. "Are you sure you want to exit?" The default is NO and will send you back to the main menu. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
