[mythtv-users] Starting myth

[Sam Hathaway]

On Mar 17, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Timo Boettcher wrote:

>   How are you starting mythfrontend?
>   I was trying to start x as my myth user from inittab, and start
>   mythfrontend from that users .xinitrc. That worked fine, but I
>   couldn't control xine or mplayer when they where started, because
>   they weren't focused (even when they were the top window).
>   What windowmanager are you using?
>   Do you log in, or do you have some kind of autologin?
>   How do you start mythfrontend when you are in X?

Hi,

I'm using GDM auto-login for the mythtv user with an .xsession file, 
and the .fvwm2rc from the mythtv distribution. This is convenient as I 
can interrupt the auto-login and instead login with a gnome session if 
I need to monkey around with it.

My .xsession file:

#!/bin/sh
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
fvwm &
irxevent & # you don't need this if you compile myth with lirc support
x0rfbserver & # for remote keyboard control
/usr/bin/mythfrontend

-sam