auto login with xfce?

Jan jan.enrico at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 07:50:38 CET 2008


Hello,

To make your whole system work properly you should start your xfce4 as
follows:

su -l user_name -c 'source /etc/profile;startx &' &> /dev/null

Otherwise, you migh experience strange behaviour, like uncorrect system
time etc..

Jan 


On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 22:13 +0100, Joost Kremers 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?
> 
> TIA
> 
> joost
> 
> 




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