[mythtv-users] Start X and mythfrontend on boot

[Tim Litwiller]

You can't set the automatic login to less than 5 seconds - that gives 
you time to get the cursor in the name box and start typing before the 
autologin happens.

There are 2 autologin settings  the first takes you in without even 
seeing the login screen on bootup - the second if you logout or 
<ctrl><alt><bkspc> gives you a few seconds to login as a different user 
before loging in automatically again.



Colin Smillie wrote:

>Hi Eric,
>I'm not sure I fully understand what you want but I think you can use
>the login manager to do what you want.  I've never done this on FC2
>but on FC1 you can have the gdm or kdm auto-login a user.  This is
>accessible via the KDE control center ( settings->control center ) in
>the system adinistralion->login manager.   The only down side that if
>you ever screw your default login you might have some problems
>accessing the machine.  As a result I have set to a 20s login, so I
>can override if I need to.
>
>Colin
>
>
>On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:52:25 -0700, Eric Thelin <eric.thelin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I just rebuilt my mythtv box and changed distributiions from gentoo to
>>fedora core 2.  I followed Jarod's howto and everything works.  But I
>>am not very happy with the gdm method of autologin.  My problem is
>>that if mythfrontend crashs or I restart X I get a login prompt.  I
>>want to simply login as a non-root user and start mythtv everytime X
>>starts.  I had this working previously by putting a script in
>>/etc/inittab that did a su to the user and then ran startx (with stdin
>>and stdout redirect from ttys).  This worked great.  But on FC2 I just
>>get an error message about no privileges to open a console or
>>something like that.  And a non-root user can't even run startx.  I
>>assume this is some new security feature but I don't like it.  So are
>>there any other ways to start x that will work with permissions better
>>or does anyone know what permissions I need to grant to be able to
>>start X as a user?
>>
>>Eric
>>
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