Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/21/05, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/21/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my systems, since they are frontend only, this might work but I don't know how to do it. Can someone point out basically how to try? Also, what user account would be used if mythfrontend

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew Cline
Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't you launch myth from /etc/inittab with a respawn action? Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 09:24 -0400, Matthew Cline wrote: Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't you launch myth from /etc/inittab with a respawn action? Matt I'd suggested that too, but mythbackend must start first. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/21/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 09:24 -0400, Matthew Cline wrote: Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't you launch myth from /etc/inittab with a respawn action? Matt I'd suggested that too, but mythbackend must start first. -- Nick Rout

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:34:47 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/21/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 09:24 -0400, Matthew Cline wrote: Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't you launch myth from /etc/inittab with a respawn action? Matt I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew Cline
On 6/21/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my systems, since they are frontend only, this might work but I don't know how to do it. Can someone point out basically how to try? Also, what user account would be used if mythfrontend was started this way? Maybe that will be apparent

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Christoph Gysin
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Nick Rout
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/20/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
If you've executed mythfrontend from .xinitrc what happens if you put an exit as the last command or just loop back to exec mythfrontend again? x On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/20/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if this is more complex than it needs to be. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:53:49 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/20/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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)

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/20/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've executed mythfrontend from .xinitrc what happens if you put an exit as the last command or just loop back to exec mythfrontend again? x Hi Brett, I currently do that in my .xsession file while running xdm. That causes fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/20/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *think* this will work but the problem I was worried about, and granted xdm/gdm/whatever doesn't solve it, is that what happens when the user makes a mistake and exits mythfrontend. (Or mythfrontend crashes, etc.) Now I'm back at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-20 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Can you just set .xinitrc to loop back (go to) the exec command so if myth is exited it executes it again? On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/20/05, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you've executed mythfrontend from .xinitrc what happens if you put an exit as the last

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-19 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Claus, Not running KDE either. This is a very minimalistic Gentoo machine that runs nothing but mythfrontend as part of a MythTV network. I'm currently using fluxbox and have only one user called mythtv. That user logs in and mythtv runs. When the user quits mythfrontend the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-19 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/19/05, Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-19 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 19 juin 15:15:05 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] crit notamment: | On 6/19/05, Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: | | I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. | Can anyone else recommend a graphical login

[gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-18 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to xdm/gdm?

2005-06-18 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson - Otterup Kirke
if you run KDE kdm is fine and has the ability you are talking about 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