[mythtv-users] Autostart irxevent and mythfrontend?

Jeremy Oddo joddo at apixels.net
Sun May 25 12:38:02 EDT 2003


Thanks for the advice, but it still doesn't seem to want to work.  Is
irxevent/irexec DISPLAY specific?

Jeremy

Eni Gma said:
> Try setting the display in the script that you use to start these
> programs.  If you are starting them on boot they won't know what display
>  to use.  Try putting
>
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0
>
> at the beginning of the script you are using to start the programs.
>
> Jeremy Oddo wrote:
>
>>Hi all--
>>
>>I've got my Myth box just about dialed in...BUT... :(
>>
>>I'm trying to get irexec, irxevent, and mythfrontend to start upon
>> bootup (or login) but I'm not having much luck.  I got mythbackend to
>> start via /etc/init.d/rc.# and lircd starts under rc.local but for some
>> reason irexec, irxevent, and mythfrontend won't start up.  I've tried
>> putting them in rc.local and even in my .bash_profile.  I'm using
>> "autologin" under KDE and I'm using a Mandrake9 distro.  AFTER the
>> thing logs in, I can type:
>>. .bash_profile
>>and everything loads up and runs just fine, I just can't seem to get it
>> to launch automatically.
>>
>>Anyone have some pointers?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Jeremy
>>
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