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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, xset to disable screen blanking, and 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
