[mythtv-users] VNC launches second mythfrontend

Thomas Börkel thomas at boerkel.de
Tue Apr 19 20:13:37 UTC 2005


HI!

Allan Risk wrote:
> I've found that if I run vncserver that a second mythfrontend is running 
> as shown by 'ps -A'.
> This second mythfrontend can be independently closed from the vnc client 
> and the one on the console remains.
> The vnc session that appears on the remote client is otherwise different 
> than the console session.
> 
> Here's my theory.  If anyone has suggestions on how to avoid this it 
> would be most welcome.
> 
> I use Jarod's ~/.kde/Autostart/myth-load.sh, which among other things 
> starts mythfrontend.
> Since vnc starts a new KDE session, I think this gets run again for the 
> vnc session and therefore mythfrontend starts a second time.

I am checking for the $DISPLAY variable in my start script like this:

if [ $DISPLAY == ":0" ] ; then
   nvidia-settings -l
   mythfrontend
fi

If your $DISPLAY is ":0.0" for a local session, then you have to modify 
the script.

Thomas



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