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huffcslists at gmail

Sep 1, 2012, 4:56 PM

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Mythbuntu 10.04 program autostart????

I hate to admit it, but for the life of me I have been unable to
fathom how mythfrontend (or when the appropriate setting is turned on,
mythwelcome) gets started on my MythBuntu 10.04 system. I have
searched high and low on the system but have failed to find anything
that would cause init to start mythfrontend running as a lowly user,
not root.

I have searched the user home directory with:
# find ~ -type f -exec egrep -li 'mythfrontend|mythwelcome' {} \;
and /etc with:
# find /etc -type f -exec egrep -li 'mythfrontend|mythwelcome' {} \;
but no joy.
I know I changed the setting in /etc/mythtv/session-settings so
mythwelcome starts instead of mythfrontend, but I don't know if I ever
knew how mythfrontend got started with the --service switch so that it
reads the session-settings file in the first place.

Would somebody take pity on me and tell me how this magically happens?

Craig.
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nick.rout at gmail

Sep 1, 2012, 5:00 PM

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Re: Mythbuntu 10.04 program autostart???? [In reply to]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Craig Huff <huffcslists [at] gmail> wrote:
> I hate to admit it, but for the life of me I have been unable to
> fathom how mythfrontend (or when the appropriate setting is turned on,
> mythwelcome) gets started on my MythBuntu 10.04 system. I have
> searched high and low on the system but have failed to find anything
> that would cause init to start mythfrontend running as a lowly user,
> not root.
>
> I have searched the user home directory with:
> # find ~ -type f -exec egrep -li 'mythfrontend|mythwelcome' {} \;
> and /etc with:
> # find /etc -type f -exec egrep -li 'mythfrontend|mythwelcome' {} \;
> but no joy.
> I know I changed the setting in /etc/mythtv/session-settings so
> mythwelcome starts instead of mythfrontend, but I don't know if I ever
> knew how mythfrontend got started with the --service switch so that it
> reads the session-settings file in the first place.
>
> Would somebody take pity on me and tell me how this magically happens?

~/.config/autostart/mythtv.desktop
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huffcslists at gmail

Sep 1, 2012, 5:11 PM

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Re: Mythbuntu 10.04 program autostart???? [In reply to]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout [at] gmail> wrote:
>>
>>snip
>>
>> Would somebody take pity on me and tell me how this magically happens?
>
> ~/.config/autostart/mythtv.desktop

sigh.. I just found it. Seems I'm too focused. Forgot I had
switched user to root so I could search files that were getting thrown
out of the search due to permission restrictions and thought I was
going to the lowly user's home directory when I typed 'cd ~' and
wasn't paying any attention to the prompt that was telling me
otherwise.

Anyways, thanks Nick. I knew as soon as I sent out a call for help
the solution would suddenly be revealed ;-).

Craig.
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nick.rout at gmail

Sep 1, 2012, 5:24 PM

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Re: Mythbuntu 10.04 program autostart???? [In reply to]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Craig Huff <huffcslists [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout [at] gmail> wrote:
>>>
>>>snip
>>>
>>> Would somebody take pity on me and tell me how this magically happens?
>>
>> ~/.config/autostart/mythtv.desktop
>
> sigh.. I just found it. Seems I'm too focused. Forgot I had
> switched user to root so I could search files that were getting thrown
> out of the search due to permission restrictions and thought I was
> going to the lowly user's home directory when I typed 'cd ~' and
> wasn't paying any attention to the prompt that was telling me
> otherwise.
>
> Anyways, thanks Nick. I knew as soon as I sent out a call for help
> the solution would suddenly be revealed ;-).

Thanks for asking a question I knew the answer to at a time when I was
lurking. It's not often I get a (correct) first post!
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