[mythtv-users] Start frontend from irexec

[Josu Lazkano]

2012/5/5 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> On 05/05/2012 04:21 PM, Josu Lazkano wrote:
>>
>> 2012/5/5 Raymond Wagner:
>>
>>> On 5/5/2012 15:54, Josu Lazkano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         #DISPLAY=:0 mythfrontend 2>&1&
>>>>         mythfrontend
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It stop the frontend well, but it doesn't start. It works well if I
>>>> execute from a terminal. But i want to execute without a terminal.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chances are you're trying to run the frontend without an X server to use.
>>>  If you configured it to log somewhere, it would tell you what the
>>> problem
>>> was.
>>
>> Thanks Raymond, I try with this:
>>
>> DISPLAY=:0 xset -dpms
>> DISPLAY=:0 mythfrontend>  /home/lazkano/mythfrontend.log 2>&1&
>>
>> And this is the log file:
>>
>> $ cat mythfrontend.log
>> No protocol specified
>> mythfrontend: cannot connect to X server :0
>>
>> I never configure the X server. How could I configure?
>
>
> That means that either you're running  the script as a different user from
> the one that's owns the X server or your script is lacking the HOME
> environment variable.
>
> Mike
>

Thanks Mike, I start the gnome session with same user as start the
irexec. I try this:

$ echo $DISPLAY


And I don't have nothing, is something wrong?

I need to read more about the X server.

Thanks all!

-- 
Josu Lazkano