[mythtv-users] Start FE from SSH

[Todd Ignasiak]

On 3/27/07, Mitch Gore <mitchell.gore at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every once in a blue moon the front end will crash, its very annoying in
> itself but the worst part is that I take my keyboard and mouse off my PC and
> connect it to the HTPC, just to restart the frontend.
>
>  It would be so much easier if i could just ssh into the box and start the
> frontend.
>
> How would i do this?

Run x11vnc on your frontend, so you can connect to it over the network
with a VNC client and control it as if you were right at the console.
 It's useful for lots of things on your Linux / MythTV box.