[mythtv-users] Starting Myth TV without desktop environment (ie KDE)

[Lance Tost]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Andy Grundman wrote:
> Here's what I do.  This might work better if you don't feel like 
> installing Gnome to get gdm.
> 
> At the bottom of your startup file (I use Gentoo so it's 
> /etc/conf.d/local.start):
> while 1; do su - mythtv -l -c '/usr/X11R6/bin/startx -- -dpi 100'; done

I tried this (on Fedora Core 1) because I liked the idea of eliminating 
the overhead of gdm... however, I kept running into console permission 
problems because of the non-root user starting startx.  I read the stuff 
about making changes in /etc/security/console.perms but I never actually 
got it to work.

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Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>