Setting up mediacenter with xbmc and Fedora 15 part 2

In the previous post I explained how xbmc was set up, in this post I will explain how to enable autologin for gdm.

When your mediacenter boots, you want it to automatically start xbmc, without having to enter a password.

To achieve this in gnome 3 you have to edit config /etc/gdm/custom.conf.

At the daemon section you have to add following configuration options:
[daemon]
TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=<your mediacenter user>
TimedLoginDelay=0

replace   <your mediacenter user> with your user.

This will autologin your "mediacenter user" at boot, but this will not start xbmc.

To automatically start xbmc, login with your "mediacenter user" and run following command from a terminal:

gnome-session-properties

In the window that popups add a service, the path to xbmc is /usr/bin/xbmc.