auto login with xfce?

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:50:38PM +0900, Jan wrote:
> 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

what is the -l switch? man su doesn't mention it.

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

based on the suggestions of others, i have replaced slackware's default
rc.4 with a file with the following content:

=====================

#!/bin/bash

exec su - user_name -c /usr/bin/startxfce4

=====================

which seems to work fine. at least the time is still ok... what else might
go wrong, how do i go about checking it?

from what i understand from man su, su starts a login shell in which the
command specified with -c is executed. AFAIU this login shell should read
/etc/profile already, so i don't see any reason to do so explicitly.

unless i'm wrong, of course.


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Joost Kremers
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