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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:08:38PM +0000, Grant (DCGlug) wrote: > 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? You probably want .xsession, rather than .xinitrc; .xsession works from xdm/gdm, .xinitrc works when you start X manually (except sometimes .xsession works for both...). .dmrc, I think, is used by gdm/kdm to remember which session to start. bma
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