[mythtv-users] Autostart irxevent and mythfrontend?

Justin Hunt yell at rogers.com
Sun May 25 16:54:23 EDT 2003


Dont s'pose u have a link to that site.  Just trying to get this working
myself.

Thanks
Justin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Oddo" <joddo at apixels.net>
To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Autostart irxevent and mythfrontend?


> Thanks Ken!
>
> I had actually just stumbled upon this (after doing a Google search and
> finding a Mandrake site that explained it).
>
> Thanks for the tip off.  And now it works :)
>
> Jeremy
>
> Ken VanDine said:
> > You should create a .Xclients file that looks like this:
> >
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > #Start a window manager
> > blackbox &
> > #Start the IR event server
> > /usr/local/bin/irxevent &
> >
> > #Start MythTV
> > /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend > ~/mythfrontend.log 2>&1
> >
> >
> > --Ken
> >
> > Quoting Jeremy Oddo <joddo at apixels.net>:
> >
> >> 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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