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Re: [LUG] Custom dmrc entry?

 

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 14:25, Grant (DCGlug) wrote:
>
> And now I've fixed it.  Added a new file in /usr/share/xsessions called
> "MythTV.desktop" with the following content:
>   [Desktop Entry]
>   Encoding=UTF-8
>   Name=MythTV
>   Comment=This session logs you into MythTV
>   Exec=/usr/bin/mythfrontend
>   # no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
>   Icon=
>   Type=Application
> Chose this from the gdmgreeter, made it the default and now it's working
> nicely. :)
>

If you're going to be using MythTV to play DVDs (which MythTV does by calling 
an external application) you'll find that you need to run it within a window 
manager to, um, manage the windows. When I had a dedicated mythfrontend, I 
used ratpoison [1] which worked well.

Regards,
David.

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/

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www.david-web.co.uk

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