On 09/10/14 17:44, James Harper wrote:
A bit of googling and there were plenty of examples of how to do it in systemd, and it seems so much nicer. Turn on box and mythtv starts, without having to fake a login or anything.
I have a nice homebrew systemd mythtv setup too. For years I had a mess of hacked GDM settings, GNOME startup scripts, and cruft. I've now replaced that with a minimal systemd service and bootstrap script: # /etc/systemd/system/xbmc.service [Unit] Description=Starts XBMC session Wants=mythtv-backend.service [Service] Type=simple User=tv ExecStart=/usr/bin/xinit /usr/local/bin/xbmc-session Restart=always TimeoutSec=10 Nice=-3 [Install] WantedBy=graphical.target # /usr/local/bin/xbmc-session #!/bin/sh x11vnc -shared -forever & openbox & # used for Steam which I launch within XBMC exec xbmc Starts reliably every time, and if XBMC crashes (as it unfortunately does often), the family just has to hit Ctrl+Alt+Bksp and it all respawns. No GNOME or X display manager dependencies whatsoever!