<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Fishburn</b> <<a href="mailto:fishburn@ianywhere.com">fishburn@ianywhere.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I am following the instructions at:<br><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Backend_Frontend">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Backend_Frontend</a><br><br>This is my first Myth install so just need a bit of clarification.
<br><br><br>###########<br>Start gdm. Choose openbox for your session. The login is very quick, almost<br>instantaneous. Be sure to login as your normal user, and not the mythtv user<br>(The mythtv user is only used to run mythbackend).
<br> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart<br><br>Right click the desktop and choose the terminal. Run gdmsetup to configure<br>an automatic login for the mythtv user as well as a time delayed login if<br>you logout. This will make the bootup a lot more streamlined (especially for
<br>HTPC use)<br> sudo gdmsetup<br>############<br><br>In the screen captures of the gdmsetup, the show to set the "Enable<br>Automatic Login" to "superm1".<br><br>The above says:<br>- "The mythtv user is only used to run mythbackend"
<br>- "Run gdmsetup to configure an automatic login for the mythtv user"<br>- "Enable Automatic Login" to "superm1"<br><br>So which is it?<br>Should we automatically login the mythtv user?<br>
This machine is being used as both the backend and the frontend.<br><br>TIA<br></blockquote></div><br>I tried gdmsetup in the past and couldn't get it to work. An interesting thing with Linux that I find is that there's more than one way to skin a cat. What I did was edit my /etc/inittab file and placed this at the bottom of the file.
<br><br>---<br># for mythtv autostarting<br>myth:2:respawn:/bin/su - mythtv -c "/usr/bin/startx" <br>---<br><br>Basically, it says to login as mythtv upon boot and run the startx command. Now if you do this, it will startx but not myth. In order for you to start myth, create a file called /home/<user>/.xinitrc . For me, it is "/home/mythtv/.xinitrc". In this file, I have...
<br><br>---<br>/usr/bin/ratpoison&<br> # xterm<br>/usr/bin/xset s off && /usr/bin/nvidia-settings --load-config-only && /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend -l /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log<br>---<br><br>The above will run ratpoison, which is my windows manager. Then, the xset does something where it disables the screen blanking, nvidia-settings loads my nvidia config file (for overscans), and mythfrontend loads mythfrontend.
<br><br><br><br>I hope this helps. Good Luck!<br><br><br><br>-- <br>View my blog!<br><a href="http://wiz561.blogspot.com/">http://wiz561.blogspot.com/</a>