[mythtv-users] Autostart of MythTV

[Marius Kjeldahl]

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:44, Yannick wrote:
>  Hello !
>
>  I've seen the following point in the documentation:
>
>    19.3: I'd like MythTV to automatically startup.
>
>   Interesting, but I presume that I must at least log in with your login
> and password in xdm...
>
>  How could I configure my system to let it start everything without any
> user action ?

1. Create an auto-login executable (assuming you want to run as something 
other than root):

int main () {
  execlp ("login", "login", "-f", "username", 0);
}

2. Install this somewhere (e.g. /usr/local/bin)

3. Update inittab and set the terminal to point to your autologin executable:

c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -n -l /usr/local/sbin/autologinusername 38400 
tty1

(all in one line)

4. Update your .bash_profile, append something like:

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/vc/1 ]; then
    startx
fi

5. Update your .xinitrc to something like:

fluxbox &
exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend &>/tmp/mythfrontend

(assuming you are using fluxbox)

In addition, mythbackend needs to run as well.

Somebody else might have an easier method, for instance using auto-login 
features in kdm/xdm etc. The method I mentioned (shamelessly collected 
through various hints elsewhere) should be fairly distribution and window 
system agnostic.

Regards,

Marius Kjeldahl