From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] media center with gentoo
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 11:11:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110514111131.0f227fd7@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DCE245E.8040601@waagmeester.co.za>
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On Sat, 14 May 2011 08:42:38 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
> How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC?
> Which (xdm,kdm,etc) should I use for this?
> Or should I just start an xsession with xbmc out of some sort of init
> script?
>
> On the XBMC forum I have found this link, and will try to get that going
> in the meantime.
> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=41739
The way I do it on my mythtv frontend is to have this
in /etc/local.d/mythtv.start
/bin/su - mythtv -c "/usr/bin/startx &>/dev/null" &
Then start mythfrontend from ~mythtv/.xinitrc
That way there's no display manager or window manager getting in the way.
--
Neil Bothwick
Isn't 'Criminal Lawyer' rather redundant?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-14 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-14 6:42 [gentoo-user] media center with gentoo Coert Waagmeester
2011-05-14 7:16 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-14 10:11 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-05-14 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-05-16 11:21 ` SOLVED [gentoo-user] " Coert Waagmeester
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