Autologin awesome using xinitrc is slow.

simplisticways · 2021-07-14 10:54:25

I've read from the wiki and gotten this to work but its kind of slow compared to sddm autologin. For that it feels very weird as I expected it to be faster without external softwares.

I created
/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/override.conf

ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/agetty --autologin thumbie --noclear %I $TERM

.profile

if [ -z "${DISPLAY}" ] && [ "${XDG_VTNR}" -eq 1 ]; then
  exec startx
fi

.xinitrc

exec awesome.

It does work but I need to wait like 10-15 seconds and it gives following error before autologin inside.

/usr/lib/xorg/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server

Sources:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Getty# … al_console
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit# … X_at_login

Any clue how to optimize?

CarbonChauvinist · 2021-07-14 11:27:31

Recheck the xinitrc wiki, yours is missing some required lines.

seth · 2021-07-14 11:36:51

In addition you may need https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit#xserverrc

simplisticways · 2021-07-14 16:22:18

I created the
file
~/.xserverrc

#!/bin/sh

exec /usr/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp "$@" vt$XDG_VTNR

But seems to still be quite slow.

seth · 2021-07-14 16:25:37

And did you also fix your xinitrc?

simplisticways · 2021-07-15 15:06:13

I copied /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc as template and added exec awesome to the bottom. Also deleting

twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &

Still same issue.

Last edited by simplisticways (2021-07-15 15:06:43)

seth · 2021-07-15 19:10:51

Let's figure *what* is actually slow here.
Add some strategic

echo "about to to foobar:" >> /tmp/autologin.debug
date >> /tmp/autologin.debug

lines into your .profile and .xinitrc and use "strace -t awesome 2>&1 > /tmp/awesome.strace" instead of "exec awesome".
Also compare your xorg log (notably the recorded date)

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#1 2021-07-14 10:54:25

Autologin awesome using xinitrc is slow.

#2 2021-07-14 11:27:31

Re: Autologin awesome using xinitrc is slow.

#3 2021-07-14 11:36:51

Re: Autologin awesome using xinitrc is slow.

#4 2021-07-14 16:22:18

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