[mythtv-users] Startup Frontend via SSH

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:40 AM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Alastair Kerr <alastair.kerr at ed.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > I used to be able to do this be ensuring that xhost was set correctly
> > (e.g. running the command 'xhost +'  on the :0 shell via a start up
> script)
> >
> > Probably newer safer ways to do this now.  Check out this post:
> >
> > http://www.nedit.org/pipermail/discuss/2001-September/000180.html
> >
> >
> > -Al
>
> Is this the output I should be getting? It doesn't seem to have any
> affect on getting the frontend started.
>
> $ xhost +
> xhost:  unable to open display ""


You can't do it from SSH.  It has to be done at the physical console or
during that console's login process

Kevin
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