[vdr] softdevice with xv-plugin does not start

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Andre Bischof may or may not have written...

> Stefan Lucke wrote: ...
[snip]
>> So vdr is running with another userid as you are logged in.
>> 1. you need to set th DISPLAY variable (export DISPLAY=:0.0)
>> 2. the user who wants to access your display needs permissions to do that
>>    For my tests, when running vdr from root I do sux which keeps
>>    authorisation to x-server contact.

> I can't manage to do that. If I try to run vdr as user root, vdr-kbd
> complains to refuse to run with root priviledges.

ITYM "complains, refusing" (unless there's something called "refuse" to which
it is complaining).

> If I do "su vdr" whoami tells me to be still root - is that what you meant
> by "sux"? Because I don't know sux, and nothing like this is installed.

My guess is that user vdr's default shell is /bin/false.

  # su - vdr -s /bin/bash

[snip]
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> xset:  unable to open display ":0.0"
[snip]
> I'm not used to exporting displays and don't know how to manage it for the
> user vdr - do you still have the patience helping me again?

Hack: as root, copy ~$USER/.Xauthority into ~vdr.

Proper method: set user vdr's shell to /bin/sh and password to something
appropriate, then connect using "ssh -X vdr at localhost". You'll probably want
to set things up so that vdr is automatically started on login.

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