auto login with xfce?

[samuel]

i have something similar in one of my init scripts... (the last script)
problems: hal related stuff is f* up...

- can't shutdown (sometimes it asks a password, sometimes shutdown and
restart are greyed out)
- can't mount removable stuff

i have something like: su -c "cd && startxfce4" samuel
i needed the "cd" command otherwise thunar and terminal would start in
/ instead of /home/samuel...

gr,S

On Feb 8, 2008 1:15 PM, Joost Kremers <joostkremers at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
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