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Steve's HTPC

silent boot

Disable early boot messages:

# CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP is not set

Add to kernel boot command line to disable remaining output:

quiet loglevel=3 vga=current

start X on boot

In /etc/local.d/x.start

su -l root -c xinit -- -nocursor &

In x.stop:

pkill xinit

My xinit config:

Use feh to set a nice background from x11-themes/gentoo-artwork. Use hhpc to definitively kill the mouse pointer.

feh --bg-scale /usr/share/pixmaps/gentoo/1024x768/Larry_the_cow_on_ice-1024x768.jpg
xset s off
/usr/local/bin/hhpc
exec /usr/local/bin/tinywm

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