From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QLBqO-0002tJ-4s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 May 2011 10:13:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BD581C005; Sat, 14 May 2011 10:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE231C005 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 10:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7CB5180418 for ; Sat, 14 May 2011 11:11:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 11:11:31 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] media center with gentoo Message-ID: <20110514111131.0f227fd7@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4DCE245E.8040601@waagmeester.co.za> References: <4DCE245E.8040601@waagmeester.co.za> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs22 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/RgJtKKlQhcyzKvxabRs__OE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 580c8180723cfba47a94864e4dd544fd --Sig_/RgJtKKlQhcyzKvxabRs__OE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > 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=3D41739 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Isn't 'Criminal Lawyer' rather redundant? --Sig_/RgJtKKlQhcyzKvxabRs__OE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3OVVgACgkQum4al0N1GQMH6wCbBg9Eab6M5m3vfmbv4ltbIxi4 8IYAn3yRG9R1mZNX8tLmDtZ5Tg3M7X7Z =TsGL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/RgJtKKlQhcyzKvxabRs__OE--