[mythtv-users] Frontend exits to login screen

Jeff Simpson jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu
Mon Apr 3 19:20:02 UTC 2006


On 4/3/06, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am running Mythtv on Fedora 4 using gdm to auto-login.  I followed the
> instructions described in the MythTv Wiki (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frontend_Auto_Login
> ) using Option 1.  My system starts up great, logs in and starts
> Mythfrontend.  The problem is that if I manually exit the frontend, kill the
> frontend from a remote terminal, or the frontend crashes, it reverts back to
> the gdm login screen.   I would like to be able to use my remote to restart
> the frontend or have a script that automaticall restarts it if it crashes,
> but obviously I get thwarted by the fact that I have to login again.  I have
> searched the list and haven't seen anyone with the same problem.  I've had
> this problem with the last few fresh installs I've done...  anyone have any
> ideas?
>

Try running mythwelcome instead of mythfrontend. Mythwelcome should act as a
menu for mythfrontend and let you start / stop the frontend from the remote

 - Jeff
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