auto login with xfce?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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).

... though, if you do want to use sudo instead, I believe the equivalent 
command would be

sudo -i -u $your_username startxfce4

The -i option should ensure that startxfce4 is run with the correct 
environment.  Be sure you have /etc/sudoers set up so you're allowed to 
run startxfce4 without entering a password, though this shouldn't be an 
issue if you run that command as root.

	-brian