Thread: Problem autostart mythtv on display 2(TV)

I am trying to get mythbuntu to autostart mythtv on the second display (my tv).
I have tried editing the mythtv.desktop file and changed as follows
exec=mythfrontend --service
changed to
exec=DISPLAY=:0.1 mythfrontend --service

I also tried by creating a bash command file mythtvegen
#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0.1
mythfrontend --service

and did a "chmod +x" on it.

If I run the script manually ./mythtvegen it works like a charm but if
I add it to autostart (via gui or manually) it does not work.

EDIT: I'm running xfce

Appreciate support

/Palle

It has been over year since this was posted, but google brought me here as I was looking for an answer to the same question. Here's the line I used to get myth to autostart on my second display:

mythfrontend -display :0.1

When I'm using Xine as video player, xine -pfhq --no-splash %s, in v0.21, the display setting wasn't passed on from MythTv to Xine. So instead of
mythfrontend -display :0.1
I prefer
DISPLAY=":0.1" mythfrontend
in my wrapper script to launch the frontend.

/Tomas