[mythtvnz] Starting from LIRC

[Austin Green]

Running an Ubuntu-derived OS on my server, where I run MythTV backend and frontend.  I have a script which starts up mythfrontend, and this is hooked up via lirc to a button on my remote.  It works fine as long as I have logged in at the server console (as myself, not as mythtv) through the normal GUI login screen; if there is nobody logged in that way, the script fails to launch mythfrontend, complaining about inability to open the X display.  AFAIK, X is started up even before anybody is logged in, but I may be assuming too much there.  Anyone else done this successfully?  Are there some tricks I should know about?  The script runs with my user id, not lirc or mythtv or root, in case that makes a difference.