[mythtv-users] Starting Myth TV without desktop environment (ie KDE) using WindowMaker instead.

[Jim Chandler]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:34:24 -0500
Andy Grundman <andy at hybridized.org> wrote:

> >>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.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Lance Tost <ltost at pobox.com>
>  >
>  > Jim Chandler wrote:
>  > Here a first cut of what I did under RedHat 9.  Jason's going to post 
> them
>  > to the instructions at some point.  If you use them, please provide
>  > feedback.
>  >
>  > login in about 2 sec as opposed to about 15-20 for KDE.
>  >
>  > Jim
> 
> OK my script doesn't work.  It starts X but shows the xdm login screen 
> instead of auto-logging in as the mythtv user.  Jim, I like your 
> windowmamker solution and it's working for me, but it still doesn't 
> solve the auto-login-on-boot issue.  Do you have to way to do that?
> 

I just used gdmsetup.  That should work...

-- 
Jim
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