[mythtv-users] Start X and mythfrontend on boot
Eric Thelin
eric.thelin at gmail.com
Tue Sep 14 22:52:25 EDT 2004
I just rebuilt my mythtv box and changed distributiions from gentoo to
fedora core 2. I followed Jarod's howto and everything works. But I
am not very happy with the gdm method of autologin. My problem is
that if mythfrontend crashs or I restart X I get a login prompt. I
want to simply login as a non-root user and start mythtv everytime X
starts. I had this working previously by putting a script in
/etc/inittab that did a su to the user and then ran startx (with stdin
and stdout redirect from ttys). This worked great. But on FC2 I just
get an error message about no privileges to open a console or
something like that. And a non-root user can't even run startx. I
assume this is some new security feature but I don't like it. So are
there any other ways to start x that will work with permissions better
or does anyone know what permissions I need to grant to be able to
start X as a user?
Eric
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