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rjrjr

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Registered: 2010-03-22

Posts: 42

MPD autostart XFCE

I'm having some trouble getting mpd to load when I start my computer. Instead of attempting to run mpd as its own user, I opted to run it from my /home/ as a process. I don't use a startup manager (unless you count 'startx' as one), yet when I add

mpd ~/.mpd/mpd.conf

to my .xinitrc it always fails to load. I'm wondering if there is a way to automate mpd and my audioscrobbler (scrobby) to load when I boot into X.

Thanks in advance,

Rog

brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 1,799

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Re: MPD autostart XFCE

mpd doesn't need X, so why don't you start it at boot via DAEMONS?  Specify your user in /etc/mpd.conf and it'll drop to him after starting -- all other files can be under ~/ called out in /etc/mpd.conf.

It's how I run it, works well.

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