On Jul 27, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
Hi all,
I have a FC3 box running myth 0.81 on KDE. I'm now trying to get it
to start up automatically on bootup but I'm only having partial luck.
I used the init scripts from contrib to start up mythbackend during
bootup and that works fine. I've tried following the directions on
Jarod Wilsons site to get FC3 to automatically log in as mythtv and
run mythfrontend but that's where I'm having trouble. I ran gdmsetup
and specified that it should automatically log in as mythtv but that
didn't work. Rebooting still leaves me at the login screen. Running
gdmsetup a second time shows that it did remember my settings. I've
also tried going into the KDE control center and setting both the
option to log in automatically and the option to log in as a specific
user after a specified period of time has passed but neither of them
work either. Has anybody gotten this successfully working on FC3 with
KDE?
If you don't really want to run KDE (if your only using your frontend
for Myth, you don't need it), there is a solution posted a couple of
places that has worked very well for me. You edit your /etc/inittab
file to spawn startx. It even restarts it when X exits. I use the
following line:
2:345:respawn:/usr/bin/openvt -fwc 2 -- /bin/su - mythtv -c
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
The options to openvt are a little different than what were posted, I
had to mess around with them since the options seem to have changed
between openvt versions. This replaces the old line in inittab for
tty2. It basically opens a virtual terminal on tty2, and as the mythtv
user, calls startx. My mythtv user has a .xinitrc file that starts a
window manager in the background, and then starts mythfrontend. When
myth exits (or dies), X stops, the init process notices, and starts it
up again. If I don't want mythfrontend to run, I can switch to runlevel
2.
-Michael
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