modify .xinitrc file to launch serviio server

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I’ve followed these instructions to build a new script to launch a media server at login. This script is in /Home. The modified .xinitrc is based on the included template in /Home.

http://suseroot.com/suse-linux-tweaks/load-startup.php

# Add your own lines here...
#

#Start the Serviio server first then the console
serviio.sh &
serviio-console.sh &

Also I added the serviio .sh files in /bin as instructed in another opensuse resource. I can’t relocate it but it says use /bin for users items.

The code doesn’t work as expected but I’m sure it is behaving as it should.
If understand correctly the init.d in /etc hands off to the /Home/bin for user scripts, then what’s there runs.
But what I’m not getting is what directs my new .xinitrc script to find the app in /Home/bin/serviio/bin.

Am I on the right track? I’m at a loss to figure out what my next search term should be.

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It seems like I need to add a line in here after . /etc…

Source common code shared between the

X session and X init scripts

. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.common
]
to reference where the server files are.
Something like:
. /home/slmandr/bin/serviio-1.4/bin/serviio.sh
. /home/slmandr/bin/serviio-1.4/bin/serviio-console.sh

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Solved:
Needed whole path in .xinitrc as:

#
# Add your own lines here...
#

#Start the Serviio server first then the console

/home/#USER/bin/serviio-1.4/bin/serviio.sh &
/home/#USER/bin/serviio-1.4/bin/serviio-console.sh &

*change #USER to your own whoami.