Auto Log in screen
Mike Chambers
mike at miketc.net
Mon Oct 13 19:10:38 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 19:13 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> The link above is interesting, but I can confirm that Autologin still works
> with F9, by adding the following lines that I borrowed
> from /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf on my FC2 install. Before suggesting this to Steve
> Friis I rebooted F9, and was auto logged in to KDE. (never used autologin
> before)
>
> [daemon]
> # Automatic login, if true the first local screen will automatically logged
> # in as user as set with AutomaticLogin key
> AutomaticLoginEnable=true
> AutomaticLogin=djmons
>
> Steve replied (unfortunately sending the reply by way of the latest digest
> he'd received, so the subject is the digest one), saying that those lines
> work fine on his laptop, and was about to try it on his server, where he
> needs autologin to work.
>
> Odd that the link above mentions nothing about autologin, but have confirmed
> for myself that the above lines added to /etc/gdm/custom.conf on F9 still
> work for autologin.
Thought, it works with kde, but what about gnome? Have you or Steve
tried it with gnome desktop instead to see what happens?
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Mike Chambers
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