[mythtv-users] XBOX - startup and is KDE needed?

[chris@cpr.homelinux.net]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 12:41:29PM -0500, A JM wrote:
> I'm trying to finish the installation on my Xbox and had a couple of final
> questions, hopefully. Since the Xbox is not very robust memory wise I want to
> have as few applications running as possible, so does mythfrontend have to run
> in KDE or some other 'front end' application or can I run it another way?
> 
> Secondly,  how can I start the frontend automatically instead of having to
> manually lauch it?

I use mingetty with auto-login on tty6 when in runlevel 5.  The
autologin user runs startx from the .bashrc, and the .xinitrc launches
both mythfrontend (foreground) and ratpoison (background).  The blackbox
rc file is empty.

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