[mythtv-users] launch mythtv-setup from console script question

Tino Keitel tino.keitel at gmx.de
Wed Feb 8 13:31:40 UTC 2006


On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:19:41 -0800, Andrew Lynch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a console mode script to install and
> configure MythTV. I am having a problem launching
> mythtv-setup, which requires X to run, from the
> console mode.
> 
> I have tried several variation of the following with
> no luck:
> 
> startx &
> xhost +
> su mythtv mythtv-setup
> mythbackend & mythfilldatabase
> su mythtv mythfrontend
> xhost -
> exit

Since the DISPLAY variable is empty after the startx command, all
programs using X won't be able to run. Try something like

export DISPLAY=:0

before xhost.

Regards,
Tino


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