Automatic start of myth frontend

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Configuration

We want the mythfrontend to startup automatically when the computer is booted, to accomplish this we do as follows:

• 1. Create a /home/mythtv/.xsession file that contains the following:

#!/bin/bash
metacity &
xterm &
xset s off
xset -dpms
while [ ! `pgrep mythbackend` ] ; do
        echo "Waiting for backend"
        sleep 1;
done;
mythwelcome

• 2. chmod +x /home/mythtv/.xsession
• 3. sudo vi /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf-custom
• 4. Find the [daemon] section and add the folowing lines to it:

AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=mythtv

• 5. Open /boot/grub/menu.lsg
• 6. Change the timeout row to:

timeout 1

References

• www.mythtv.org