Simon Baxter wrote: > Hi group > > My VDR box currently starts up like a regular Fedora Core user, > auto-logs-in and starts xine - much like I expect most of you do. > > I'm looking for a way to make all the X startup and log in invisible to > the user. This is where my knowledge of X and gnome falls down. > > Ideally, once the initial kernel messages have completed I'd like a VDR > splash screen (maybe even a progress bar) as things start up. > > How do I do this? I've been looking at modifying xinitrc and > xinitrc-common to remove the desktop manager, but this seems a bit brutal. > > > Any ideas or thoughts? > I know my solution isn't optimal, but I think it is good enough for me and easy to set up: I run VDR as a daemon, which I start from an init script. Additionally I have set up kdm to autologon the vdr user and start up a fluxbox session. The fluxbox session runs a start up script which starts vdr-sxfe, which connect to the xineliboutput plugin. It takes 20 seconds for the BIOS to do its thing and after another 15 seconds VDR itself is up. Then it takes addional 20 seconds for the fluxbox to start (including Nvidia drivers and X) and the picture to appear. The BIOS step I cannot speed up without changing the motherboard and VDR starts quite fast too, but I think one might be able to shave some seconds off from the last step. I have two ouput devices connected, a TV and a projector. I have added to VDR's commands menu entries for running a script, which stops kdm, switches to an alternative xorg.conf and restarts kdm. This way I can select the used output device from VDR, with the necessary resolution and refresh rate. Hope this helps. -Petri _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
