[Tfug] Automatically starting X?

[Bexley Hall]

> I've set up a second box (puccini) that acts essentially as a dumb
> terminal.  It's providing me a second monitor for my laptop via
> Synergy (which acts as a software-based KVM, minus the video).
> 
> Problem is that I needed to be logged into puccini and have an X
> session running before I'm able to start Synergy.  So, I'm thinking
> that the solution is to configure puccini to login a regular user on
> boot and start up X.  So: two questions: (1) Is there a better way to
> do this than automatically logging in?  (2) If I do configure an auto
> login, is there a preferred way?  Off the top of my head, I'm thinking
> that I can just 'startx' via rc.local ('su'ing to a non-privileged
> user).

Why not just let xdm start a login prompt (window) on a "local"
X server?  It means you'll have the extra step of having to
type a user name (password can be blank) but it has the
advantage of *requiring* that (instead of leaving that machine
"open")