Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> writes:
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 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xinit /usr/local/bin/xbmc-session
# /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!
nodm didn't work? OK, technically that's 122kB of X display manager. :-) I also don't see why putting your ExecStart line into inittab would be any less reliable (which IIRC you mentioned upthread). That's what I did on my netbook for a couple of years without any issues.