<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">In KDE Control Center -> Login Manager -> Convenience</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Click the auto-login box. The other settings you need are obvious there.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">Then, make sure you have it set to start your session from saved session, launch Myth (back end if needed and front end definitely). Then save your session. Now when you boot, it will auto login and restore to your saved session (which means launching Myth).</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">I p</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier">lay it safe and set my auto-login to happen after 20 seconds so if I need to over-ride and log in as another user or root or something, I can catch it in time.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><BR></FONT><DIV><DIV>On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Robert Denier wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This is probably easy, but I can't think of an obvious way to automatically<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">login as a user.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>From that point you need to start X and mythfrontend, but<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that is probably easy as long as one can figure out how to execute a script<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">as a particular user.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The overall idea is to have the system get to the point that you can use the<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">remote automatically after you turn it on.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm using Gentoo Linux.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>This<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">shouldn't be that hard, but I just don't see an obvious starting point other<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">than maybe figuring out the init process from inittab or maybe something like<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">xdm that does autologins.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-Robert Denier</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mythtv-users mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>