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On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:10:38 +0000 David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ > Thanks for the advice, David. The machine in question actually doesn't have a DVD drive, and I don't envisage myself adding one. The primary purpose of this project was because I can, and to put a use to the machine which *was* running as my webserver. I have a fair number of MP3/OGG files on my server, and an increasing number of DivXs... it would just be nice to have these playing through a quiet computer in the living room rather. Cheers though. :) --Grant -- 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