Hey!

I am not a total newbie although i ain't no big boss either.

I am running FC3. My wm is fluxbox. As i am concerned with reducing boot time i would like to skip gdm or (kdm/xdm) since i am the only user on my laptop.
As soon as level 5 services are started i would like to get logged in automatically, x to start and fluxbox to start.

I have tried to run this script at the end of inittab but it didn't work :

login -f my_user_name
startx
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox

I am at the moment starting up thru gdm (automatically so i don't actually see gdm). My boot time is approximately 1min20sec.

Thanx for any ideas

Manu

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kodis.html
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/chung.html

But you don´t need to apply the patch, the autologin parameter is now already included in mingetty:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mingetty.8.html

Read the articles, but basically you need to change this in your /etc/inittab:

1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear --autologin kodis tty1

and add this to your ~/.bash_profile:

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
startx
fi

I haven't tried this in a computer with a login manager installed, maybe you´ll need to uninstall gdm.

Thanks!!!

I'll try that right after studying (exams are looooming )


Manu

Hey!

Alright it works pretty fine when i boot but when i exit fluxbox, i just get a black screen and then it start fluxbox again...

Know why?