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thursdayknights

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Registered: 2007-08-25

Posts: 28

Is there any way to automatically login and startx upon startup?

Is there any way to automatically login and startx upon startup?

Last edited by thursdayknights (2008-01-17 20:45:30)

PJ

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 602

Re: Is there any way to automatically login and startx upon startup?

Never tried it but I think this might help you:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_boot

fi-dschi

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 19

Re: Is there any way to automatically login and startx upon startup?

I recommend you to make gdm load automatically on startup by following the steps in
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Inittab_Method
and of course installing gdm with
pacman -S gdm
Then you can edit the GDM settings to make it login a set user after some seconds.
fi-dschi

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: Is there any way to automatically login and startx upon startup?

I recommend you to make gdm load automatically on startup by following the steps in
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Inittab_Method
and of course installing gdm with
pacman -S gdm
Then you can edit the GDM settings to make it login a set user after some seconds.
fi-dschi

if your not using gnome, then I would look at slim. Its lighter on system resources and not dedicated to anyone DE.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLIM

thursdayknights

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Registered: 2007-08-25

Posts: 28

Re: Is there any way to automatically login and startx upon startup?

Thank you; I followed the ArchWiki (should've known to search it first, sorry).