Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Thomas Cort <tcort@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] auto login
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:18:26
Message-Id: 20060703205743.c9eb2df6.tcort@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] auto login by gentoo@kd4ccd.dynalias.org
1 On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:49:12 -0400
2 gentoo@×××××××××××××××.org wrote:
3 > How do I auto login and start a single X11 related program EX oxine.
4 > I have it all configured to run but I still have to login and startx for it
5 > to work.
6
7 You can use gdm. Just `emerge gdm`, set DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
8 in /etc/rc.conf, make it start at boot with `rc-update add xdm
9 default`, and then start it up and configure it with `/etc/init.d/xdm
10 start`. In one of the configuration screens you can set it to
11 automatically log a user in when it is first started.
12
13 -tcort

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Re: [gentoo-user] auto login Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>