Matt Mossholder wrote: >I don't know why everyone keeps focusing on restarting myth, when what >is actually needed is to solve the root cause as mentioned here: > >"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." > >All you need to do is tell the front end that the key to quit the front >end is different from the "exit" key. This is done by going to >Settings->General, and on the 4th screen, the top item ("System Exit >Key"), change the key that is used to exit the front end to something >other than Esc. > > > This is the BEST solution!
Best to try Alt-Esc first if you're on KDE. Ctrl-Esc defaults to the Process Table of KDE System Guard (unless you've changed it.) > > > >On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:20 -0500, MythTV wrote: > > >>Jarod's how-to under Tips and Tricks "Make Myth more Wife friendly" >>(http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php) has a technique to make a button the >>remote restart the frontend. >> >>- Todd >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:16 PM >>To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org >>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 >> _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users