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On 27/2/2007, "Grant (DCGlug)" <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Hi all, > >I'm currently setting up a "spare" computer as a "media centre" >(God, I hate that term). MythTV is in and seems to run quite nicely. >GDM is now set to autologin the mythtv user. However, it would seem to >login to Gnome. I have tried having a ~/.dmrc file that contains >nothing but this: > exec mythfrontend >however, it gets overwritten when GDM autologsin. I have tried creating >a ~/.xinitrc file, but it would seem that GDM doesn't use these. > >Does anyone know how I can get mythfrontend to start automagically *on >it's own* (ie without having the whole of Gnome/KDE/whatever loaded >alongside it) when GDM autologsin the mythtv user? > >Cheers muchly. >--Grant. > >-- >The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html And now I've fixed it. Added a new file in /usr/share/xsessions called "MythTV.desktop" with the following content: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=MythTV Comment=This session logs you into MythTV Exec=/usr/bin/mythfrontend # no icon yet, only the top three are currently used Icon= Type=Application Chose this from the gdmgreeter, made it the default and now it's working nicely. :) --Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html