[mythtvnz] Starting from LIRC

[Rory Grant]

It's been a long time since I've thought about this, so I might be
mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that X is started by the user, rather than as
a system process.

Remember the good ol' days of logging in on TTY1, then running "startx"?

GDM/XDM/KDM/LightDM etc are display managers, but don't run a full X
session.

As for making it work, you'll need help from someone who knows what they're
doing!

Rory

On 14 July 2016 at 18:24, Austin Green <austin.green at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> 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.
>
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