[mythtv-users] [SOLVED] Using myth FE on other screen

[John Finlay]

Christopher Brüning wrote:
> i don't know where it is under mythbuntu, but you can enter this for 
> example
> /usr/bin/mythfrontend -display :0.1
> under mythbuntu session or so where you can say which program should 
> start automaticly
>
>
> 2008/4/5, John Finlay <finlay at moeraki.com <mailto:finlay at moeraki.com>>:
>
>     I have a mythbuntu system with two screens and I'd like to start the
>     myth FE on screen :0.1 but I can't figure out how. If I start it
>     from a
>     terminal with -display :0.1 it works fine but I' like to have it
>     automatically start up. How do I set this up?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     John
>
On mythbuntu mythfrontend is a script that provides for option setting 
from /etc/mythtv/session-settings using the MYTHFRONTEND_OPTS variable. 
There is a bug in /usr/bin/mythfrontend that prevents "-display :0.1" 
from being interprested as separate words and mythfrontend fails to run. 
The required chan to mythfrontend to make it work is change:

        exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real "$@"

to:

        exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real $@

John