Hi
I'm running VDR-1.6.0 and vdr-xine on my Fedora 6 box, and am moving into Fedora 9.
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.
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?
Thanks Simon
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Simon Baxter linuxtv@nzbaxters.com wrote:
Perhaps you could hold out for 11 days? Fedora 10 is due then.
What is this clever stuff?
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
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Simon Baxter linuxtv@nzbaxters.com wrote:
I've moved from Fedora8 to Fedora10beta using GNOME 2 weeks ago, beside the autologin that have to be configured in gdm config file instead of a menu you probably used there is no much differences in the process. Search for "gdm autologin" in google, I don't have access to my Linux machine right now. xine can be started from .bashrc
If you don't have a strong machine you should probably consider another windows manager since GNOME and KDE are resource hungry.
Simon Baxter wrote:
This sounds familiar, and leads to the question: Do your *really* need a window manager? Or do you just run xine fullscreen all the time?
At that point, I've decided to go my own way without login screen and without window managers. My runvdr extreme script, latest version, can fire up its own X window sesssion and runs VDR within that X session. The default runlevel therefor does not start any gdm/kdm/xdm for X and login at all, just like a text console only. And if I really need to log in, I use the VDR commands menu to switch to a different runlevel where VDR is stopped and gdm is started, giving me a normal X login screen.
You can use the latest runvdr extreme as sample how to do that. Or just use it anyway. ;)
http://www.udo-richter.de/vdr/scripts.en.html#runvdr-extreme (note: site may be temporarily down next days, mail me if you need anything)
Cheers,
Udo
Thanks.
I think I've followed the README, but am getting this:
[root@freddy vdr-1.6.0]# /root/runvdr-extreme-0.4.0/runvdr --terminal="" --switchterminal="" Starting VDR at Sun Nov 23 15:05:40 NZDT 2008 /root/vdr-1.6.0/vdr -c "/media/video/vdr-1.6.0" -E "/media/video/vdr-1.6.0/epg.data" -l 3 -L /root/vdr-1.6.0/PLUGINS/lib -P "skincurses" -P "pvrinput" -v "/media/video/vdr" -w 90 rm: cannot remove `/tmp/runvdr-1955': No such file or directory
X.Org X Server 1.4.99.905 (1.5.0 RC 5) Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux freddy.nzbaxters 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 4 13:46:35 EDT 2008 x86_64 Build Date: 02 July 2008 01:36:02PM Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.4.99.905-2.20080702.fc9 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Nov 23 15:05:40 2008 (++) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" expected keysym, got XF86Info: line 914 of inet expected keysym, got XF86Info: line 914 of inet vdr: /root/vdr-1.6.0/PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-skincurses.so.1.6.0: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied
waiting for X server to shut down
PID=1994 RET=2 VDR died within 10 seconds, this happened 1 time(s). Terminating by error level 2 at Sun Nov 23 15:05:42 NZDT 2008 Sending 1 processes the TERM signal.terminated. [root@freddy vdr-1.6.0]#
<fin>
Looks like a couple of problems. keysym (??) instead of "XF86Info" needed? And a problem with libvdr-skincurses.so.1.6.0
ls -l /root/vdr-1.6.0/PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-skincurses.so.1.6.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142752 2008-11-15 12:48 /root/vdr-1.6.0/PLUGINS/lib/libvdr-skincurses.so.1.6.0
What am I doing wrong?
On Saturday 15 November 2008 06:15:05 Simon Baxter wrote:
Adding
[daemon] AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=vdruser
into /etc/gdm/custom.conf will make GDM log in automatically (seen at http://readlist.com/lists/redhat.com/fedora-list/48/243490.html).
Fedora 9 is using GDM 2.22 which apparently is a redesing/rewrite compared to the previous versions, I found some screenshots - which might already be a bit outdated - at http://live.gnome.org/GDM/Screenshots.
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