auto login with xfce?

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Feb 8 20:42:22 CET 2008


Daniele wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Hi every1,
> I tried that command out in Ubuntu Gusty at sturtup but it doesn't seem to work.
> su - user_name -c startxfce4   doesn't work either.
> Is that because in ubuntu I should use 'sudo <something> ' instead ?

Might want to ask in an Ubuntu-related forum.  That should work 
everywhere, assuming you're adding it to your startup scripts, and not 
trying to run that as a regular user (there's really no reason to run it 
as a regular user anyway).

	-brian



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