[olug] Digital picture frame distro

[Jay Swackhamer]

I dont login to that machine locally, just ssh.

You dont have to run a login manager, if you are starting X through a  
script from the local startup.

You can set gdm or kdm to automatically login as a specific user,  
which I used to do on the mythfrontends with autologin on GDM.

I now just run the start_X script from the local.start.

X is not set to start, taken out of the runlevels, no gdm/kdm/xdm/whatever.

/etc/conf.d/local.start contains
su - mythtv -c "/opt/mythtv/scripts/start_X"

which runs the

startx
/opt/mythtv/scripts/slideshow.sh

I use the mythbox as a frontend upstairs, with the second display in  
the wall in the front room. :0.0 on one, and :0.1 on the other.

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Quoting Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com>:

>> For the screen in the wall at the shop, I just have it startup to a
>> prompt, then launch X from a script through 'local' start. The script
>> runs startx, ...
>
> Thanks, Jay.  So you still have to have a keyboard accessible in order
> to log in, right?  I wonder if it's possible to replace g/kdm with
> another app that would start X and run as a service on startup so that
> I wouldn't have to touch the keyboard or mouse pad (touch screen
> support in Fedora 9 & Ubuntu 8.04 sucked on this model -- haven't tried
> the latest releases yet).  There'd be virtually no writing done to the
> drive, so I'm not concerned with simply powering it off when done.
>
> I've never monkeyed with g/kdm before.  Do any of you know off the
> top of your head what it would take to run an arbitrary X app instead
> of the login manager?  If not, I can google as well as anybody...
>
> --
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