[Tfug] Automatically starting X?

[Brian Murphy]

Most display managers (xdm, gdm, kdm) have an autologin feature.

http://codintips.blogspot.com/2009/06/ubuntu-gdm-auto-login.html

Brian

Quoting Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>:
> 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).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Claude
>
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