Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] auto login
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:35:29
Message-Id: 20060704082253.5ff1e5fe@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] auto login by Thomas Cort
1 On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:57:43 -0400, Thomas Cort wrote:
2
3 > You can use gdm. Just `emerge gdm`, set DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
4 > in /etc/rc.conf, make it start at boot with `rc-update add xdm
5 > default`, and then start it up and configure it with `/etc/init.d/xdm
6 > start`. In one of the configuration screens you can set it to
7 > automatically log a user in when it is first started.
8
9 You can do the same with KDM, tick the auto-login box in the KDE Control
10 Centre. You can start the program from ~/.kde/Autostart, or leave it
11 running when you log out and the default KDE behaviour is to restart it
12 when you log back in.
13
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15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Top Oxymorons Number 7: Definite maybe

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