On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Simon Baxter <linuxtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I'm running VDR-1.6.0 and vdr-xine on my Fedora 6 box, and am moving into > Fedora 9. > Perhaps you could hold out for 11 days? Fedora 10 is due then. > I've always had problems with a lack of real understanding on window > managers, so have put up with GDM under Fedora 6, but Fedora 9 has some real > nasty "clever" stuff that just simply needs disabling. > What is this clever stuff? > Can anyone suggest a howto, or can guide me on how to circumvent this > entirely? Basically I need to: > > 1) auto log into 'vdruser' > 2) start xine > > That's it. Everything else is done behind the scenes, and I can handle. > > Can anyone help? > I apologize that I cannot give a simple howto for Fedore since I use Ubuntu myself, but I guess the same approach should work. What I did, was as follows: 1. Remove all Gnome related packages 2. Install slim (http://slim.berlios.de/index.php) 3. Install fluxbox (http://fluxbox.org/) Both of those can be found in Ubuntu repositories, but I used the git/cvs/svn/hg versions. Slim can be configured to do autologin with your favorite user and fluxbox in turn can be configured to start your favorite applications by modifying its startup file (http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Editing_the_startup_file). This is of course only one solution, but in my opinion it is easy and versatile enough. -Petri _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
