[SOLVED] SoftHdDevice : autostart with openbox

Hi,

openbox does offer autostart, you need to create:

#/> cat /root/.config/openbox/autostart.sh


# Set the wallpaper
xsetroot -solid "#000000" &

assuming openbox is also started as "root". Pay attention to the closing "&" ...

Regards
fnu

walou

Sure ".config" is only valid for the starting user, but I don't see a real reason why you should run VDR as root. I'm using Ubuntu since many years and don't do it. Ok I'm using VDR from my own package archive, starting it with the provided common start scripts.

You forgot to mention with any word, that openbox doesn't run as root in your installation. But think about how should somebody help here, having just a part of the information to get a maybe proper answer ...

In your case you need to write another script, started by autostart, which does run VDR. You need to place VDR in sudoers and VDR itself may complain, that it'll be run as root ...

Regards
fnu

Zitat von walou

but I can't use sudo to start vdr with root privileges with it.

You can allow your user to execute a certain script with sudo but without the need to enter a password (so it works in an autostart script):

$ sudo visudo
# Add this line to the config file, so the
# user myuser is allowed to execute 
# "sudo /usr/local/bin/vdr-start" without 
# getting asked for a password
 myuser    ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/vdr-start