unable to set mythfrontend to autorun on secondary display

[Ben Franske]

Binary package hint: mythtv

This is a bug in 8.04 see the discussion thread at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4724373 for more information.

I run my Mythbuntu system with dual monitors (well the second is the PVR-350 framebuffer on a TV). In any event I've configured X so that screen 0 is the PC monitor and screen 1 is the TV. I'd like to have mythfrontend run on system startup but load on screen 1 instead of screen 0. I can do this manually by closing mythfrontend and opening a terminal where I "export DISPLAY=:0.1" and the run mythfrontend but I'd like this to run automatically.

You should be able to edit /etc/mythtv/session-settings and set MYTHFRONTEND_OPTS="-display :0.1"

This does not work, when I try that I get an error about the option being incorrect. There is a bug in the mythfrontend service script that causes the options set in session-settings to be passed as a unit instead of multiple words.

To fix:
edit /usr/share/mythtv/mythfrontend.sh
change:
exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real "$@"
to:
exec /usr/bin/mythfrontend.real $@

Once this change is made editing /etc/mythtv/session-settings and setting MYTHFRONTEND_OPTS="-display :0.1" works as it should.

[laga (laga)]

Thanks for catching this bug! It's also been brought to our attention in ticket #217974. I'll be marking this ticket as a duplicate of #217974.

Have a great day,

Michael

[laga (laga)]

Of course, I meant to say this is a duplicate of #212604. Oops. :)