The wiki was intended for you to choose your ordinary user name. This was a typo that it still had mythtv as the user name in some text. I'll correct it.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Michael MacLeod</b> <<a href="mailto:mikemacleod@gmail.com">mikemacleod@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What you'll in fact find is that gdmsetup wont let you select the<br>mythtv user, generally. Because the mythtv user is added by a<br>post-install script as a system user, it's UID is less than 1000,<br>which is where 'regular' user accounts start on ubuntu. gdmsetup, near
<br>as I can tell, wont let you select a user for automatic login who's<br>UID is less than 1000. So the simple solution is to edit<br>/etc/gdm/gdm.conf in your favourite text editor. Here's the relevant<br>section from my
gdm.conf:<br><br>[daemon]<br># Automatic login, if true the first local screen will automatically logged in<br># as user as set with AutomaticLogin key.<br>AutomaticLoginEnable=true<br>AutomaticLogin=mythtv<br><br><br>On 11/2/06, Michael Tiller <
<a href="mailto:michael.tiller@gmail.com">michael.tiller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> David,<br>><br>> I would not call this definitive by any stretch but on my system (I<br>> followed the same instructions by the way) I run mythfrontend as "mythtv".
<br>> The backend gets run at startup from /etc/init.d so I assume the backend is<br>> running as root.<br>><br>> So to answer your question, I think you should do automatic login as<br>> mythtv (since I know for sure it works for the manual process).
<br>><br>> P.S. - I thought it was somewhat odd that those instructions go directly to<br>> automatic login as part of the process. Personally, I would add that later<br>> since it is such a minor issue (and easy to get working).
<br>><br>> --<br>> Mike<br>><br>> On 11/1/06, David Fishburn <<a href="mailto:fishburn@ianywhere.com">fishburn@ianywhere.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > I am following the instructions at:<br>
> ><br>> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Backend_Frontend">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Edgy_Backend_Frontend</a><br>> ><br>> > This is my first Myth install so just need a bit of clarification.
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ###########<br>> > Start gdm. Choose openbox for your session. The login is very quick,<br>> almost<br>> > instantaneous. Be sure to login as your normal user, and not the mythtv
<br>> user<br>> > (The mythtv user is only used to run mythbackend).<br>> > sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart<br>> ><br>> > Right click the desktop and choose the terminal. Run gdmsetup to configure
<br>> > an automatic login for the mythtv user as well as a time delayed login if<br>> > you logout. This will make the bootup a lot more streamlined (especially<br>> for<br>> > HTPC use)<br>> > sudo gdmsetup
<br>> > ############<br>> ><br>> > In the screen captures of the gdmsetup, the show to set the "Enable<br>> > Automatic Login" to "superm1".<br>> ><br>> > The above says:
<br>> > - "The mythtv user is only used to run mythbackend"<br>> > - "Run gdmsetup to configure an automatic login for the mythtv user"<br>> > - "Enable Automatic Login" to "superm1"
<br>> ><br>> > So which is it?<br>> > Should we automatically login the mythtv user?<br>> > This machine is being used as both the backend and the frontend.<br>> ><br>> > TIA<br>> >
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