[mythtv-users] How to KEEP mythtv running when user exits
John Biundo
johnbiundo at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jan 11 00:50:07 UTC 2006
Hi all.
I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running
mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession). No problem there.
But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many
exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt.
After futzing with inittab to try to get this working, and googling
around along a bunch of wild goose chases, I'm throwing my hands up and
beseeching the gurus how to do this.
I'm running KDE. Don't want to give it up (unless I absolutely have to).
Putting a line like: m7:2345:respawn:/bin/su - mythtv -c /usr/bin/startx
in my /etc/inittab doesn't work. When I test it, by exiting from
mythtv, this method fails with a message about the user not being
allowed to start the x server. Which puzzles me because user mythtv IS
allowed to run startx, and the command line 'su -mythtv -c
/usr/bin/startx' works fine when I'm logged in as root.
What am I missing? How do other people handle this?
Thanks!
cheers,
john
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