[mythtv-users] Ubuntu, Auto start frontend on bootup

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 05:38:42 -0500, you wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have been using autostart in gentoo using
>https://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/mythtv/autostart.html which has been
>working well. However, in Ubuntu (18.04/Bionic) there is no
>/etc/inittab. How can auto-login a user and make use of my .xinitrc file
>in ubuntu?

In Mythbuntu 16.04, autostarting mythfrontend is part of the default
setup for MythTV.  But Mythbuntu uses the XFCE 4 desktop - it is based
on Xubuntu.  I think Ubuntu 18.04 uses Gnome, so it may be that the
MythTV packages do not have the autostarting setup needed for Gnome,
but would do it if installed on Xubuntu 18.04.

In Mythbuntu 16.04, the autostarting is done via the GUI: Applications
> Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart tab.  In the
list of programs on that tab is "MythTV Frontend" which has the
"Command" field set to "mythfrontend --service".  I did once find the
file that is stored in, but I am afraid that was a long time ago and I
can not remember now.

So your best bet to manually get mythfontend to autostart would
probably be to find the version of Gnome that Ubuntu 18.04 is using
and look up autostarting in its documentation.