On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Simon Baxter linuxtv@nzbaxters.com 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:
- auto log into 'vdruser'
- 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