From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QLG13-0005tm-0m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 14:40:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3BCD1C07B; Sat, 14 May 2011 14:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858961C07B for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 14:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAF61B4072 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 14:38:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.541 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.541 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.058, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KphKghGb6KuL for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 14:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43811B4032 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 14:37:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QLFyY-00072p-Ku for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:37:50 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:37:50 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 16:37:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: media center with gentoo Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 14:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4DCE245E.8040601@waagmeester.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110501 Gentoo/2.0.14 SeaMonkey/2.0.14) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4820e792d9dc1dc9a694d1fb00078d59 Coert Waagmeester waagmeester.co.za> writes: > How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC? There are a multitude of approaches to this sort of functionality. Searching out keywords, such as "kiosk", "gentoo" and other relevant strings will yield some interesting reading and approaches. Here's one I intend to experiment with, but, it is KDE4 centric.... http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Kiosk hth, James