Running Mythfrontend at Login

[kbocek]

Rebuilding a 0.39 frontend on Ubuntu 18.04. All the mythfrontend files are installed from PPA.

Figured out the GDM3 autologin to the mythtv user. Now how the heck do I get mythfrontend to auto-run at login? All my old methods aren't working.

Thanks for the help.

[jfbauer]

Search for "Startup Applications", run that, select add

[kbocek]

Thanks for the help jfbauer but I'm looking the command line answer. In my other frontend I do basic X configuration through /home/mythtv/.xsession. But for some reason it isn't being read in this default installation of Ubuntu 18. Is this some GDM3 magic I am not aware of? Is there something to be done to enable .xsession?

[jfbauer]

I am sure, but you could try ~/.Xclients instead of .xsession.

[kbocek]

I am sure, but you could try ~/.Xclients instead of .xsession.

Nope. .Xclients does not do it.

I can't seem to figure out how to auto-run mythfrontend under GDM3.

So https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_Au ... _Autostart Says .gnomerc. I've got that. Just the way the wiki says. But it's still not running.

[kbocek]

So this is an old Ubuntu bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1895781

There is a workaround in the bug post to get .gnomerc to be read