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Fedora 20 : Launch vlc video at startup

I would like to launch a video with VLC in fedora 20 for atm project.

I already succeed to get the right command line in crontab

@reboot vlc -vvv --loop --fullscreen video_file

but i think vlc is launching & crashing because X server is not totally launched.

Is there an option to make a wait in cron or should i cron a bash script with a timeout before to launch VLC ?

Solution

  • Here is the solution :

    ( vlc requires an x server to be launched , so you to give it your local x server ip : :0 )

    here is the command line :

     @reboot DISPLAY=:0 vlc -vvv --loop --fullscreen video_file

    and everything is fine