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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/ -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html