[vdr] Re: ANNOUNCE: console plugin vdr-console-0.1.0

["Jan Rieger" <jan@ricomp.de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org] 
> On Behalf Of Sascha Volkenandt
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:46 PM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: ANNOUNCE: console plugin vdr-console-0.1.0
> 
> 
> On Dienstag, 19. November 2002 11:58 Jan Rieger wrote:
> > because of the actual discussion about VDR as a terminal, i 
> would like 
> > to announce my plugin "console" for the developer version of VDR.
> >
> > With this plugin you can use your - to the VDR box connected - TV 
> > screen and keyboard as a terminal. In the corresponding menu of the 
> > OSD you can manage several consoles that run simultaniously.
> 
> Is there any way for you to grab the keyboard input off from a (maybe 
> configurable) console device instead of STDIN? That's because 
> I run vdr in 
> the background usually and I donÄt want to change this for 
> several reasons.

Doesn't work the VDR switch "--terminal=???" for you?

Or: I start my vdr in the script "/etc/init.d/vdr" with:

 /usr/local/bin/runvdr < /dev/tty12 > /dev/tty12 2> /dev/tty12 &

This should result in the same effect as the --terminal= switch.

For me this works great.

Jan



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