auto login with xfce?

David Mohr damailings at mcbf.net
Thu Feb 7 22:15:27 CET 2008


On Feb 7, 2008 2:13 PM, Joost Kremers <joostkremers at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> hi list,
>
> this may not be the best place to ask, so if i need to go elsewhere, just
> let me know.
>
> i've recently bought an asus eeepc 4G and am in the process of installing
> slackware on it, obviously with xfce. now, since this isn't going to be a
> multi-user machine and because i want it to be ready for use quickly, i'd
> like to have this machine boot into xfce automatically, without having to
> log in. i've searched google and there seem to be various ways of doing
> this. is there any one way that is most suitable or recommended in
> combination with xfce?

My suggestion would be to look into gdm, which I think has an autologin option.
AFAIK xfce doesn't have a login-manager at this time.

~David

> TIA
>
> joost
>
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