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eXt
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 Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: Lightweight displaymanager with autologin |
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| Hi, is there any lightweight displaymanager that supports autologin? I know gdm can do this. What I want to do is to have X and fluxbox autostart and just launch an application. |
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Darius4all
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eXt
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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No, I don't want to login at all. The computer should start X and launch my application without any interaction at all. The computer usually won't have a keyboard or mouse. It's supposed to run a kind of slideshow.
EDIT: Preferably X should restart if it crashes. |
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pussi
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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unfortunately slim can't autologin but wouldn't something like this in /etc/conf.d/local.start work?
| Code: | USER="myuser"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
while [ 1 ]; do
su -c 'startx' $USER &> /home/$USER/.xsession-errors &
done |
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eXt
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| pussi wrote: | unfortunately slim can't autologin but wouldn't something like this in /etc/conf.d/local.start work?
| Code: | USER="myuser"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
while [ 1 ]; do
su -c 'startx' $USER &> /home/$USER/.xsession-errors &
done |
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Wouldn't that keep running startx all the time? |
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richard.scott
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | USER="myuser"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
while [ 1 ]; do
su -c 'startx' $USER &> /home/$USER/.xsession-errors &
done |
couldn't you use daemontools to start (or restart) startx as required? |
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pussi
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| eXt wrote: | | Wouldn't that keep running startx all the time? |
oops, you're right. didn't really think that all the way through :oops:
but if you remove the while loop that should run startx automatically
there's probably some trick to make it restart X if it crashes too |
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djpenguin
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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On my HTPC, I use mingetty to autlogin with the following lin in /etc/inittab:
| Code: | | c1:3:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin media tty1 |
media is the name of the user that I'm logging in, adjust accordingly.
After that, just put "startx" on the last line of the autologin user's .bash_profile, and the machine will log the user in to X and then start X every time the machine is booted. As far as the auto-restarting X thing goes, it sounds like a properly-configured gdm install should do the trick.
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eXt
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| pussi wrote: | oops, you're right. didn't really think that all the way through 
but if you remove the while loop that should run startx automatically
there's probably some trick to make it restart X if it crashes too |
I've tried this approach and it seems to work good and I've put "killall X" in local.stop too.
| djpenguin wrote: | | As far as the auto-restarting X thing goes, it sounds like a properly-configured gdm install should do the trick. |
I think gdm is a bit to heavy to install as it pulls quite a lot of packages with it, otherwise I already considered it since I know it does everything I need.
The problem with both these approaches would be that X wouldn't restart if it crashed. I think this is needed because the computer should be running all the time, preferably without any interaction at all. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:24 am Post subject: |
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Have a look here how I solved the problem ...
HTH
swimmer |
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