[mythtvnz] Headaches with .gnomerc and .initrc in Ubuntu

[Matt Poff]

Hey all, I've got into trouble altering some init settings on my Myth 
box in order to get NVIDIA overscan settings to stick. Since upgrading 
to Ubuntu Gutsy I've noticed a lot of cut-off around the edges of my 
desktop on my CRT TV display. Not sure why this has only become a 
problem now but after extensive Googling I fixed it by scaling back the 
Overscan settings in the nvidia-settings GUI app.

In order to get these settings to stick, it was recommended to add the 
following lines to .initrc in the Myth users home directory:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings -l &
exec gnome-session

... and create a symlink with the .xsession file in the same directory

ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession


I did this and it worked but it also kills my Myth startup commands 
stored in .gnomerc. These take care of starting MythWelcome and look 
like this:

sleep 20
exec mythwelcome
exec /usr/bin/mtd --daemon
mythfrontend stop


Basically, with the initrc commands enabled, the autostart of Myth 
doesn't. Moving these commands into the tail of the initrc file just 
kills the login process.

What's the best approach to get these working? As I understand it, the 
NVIDIA settings loading has to happen before the window manager init 
scripts run but why is this killing the .gnomerc script?

Grateful for any tips here.

Cheers,
Matt