automatically starting gui after login
 

instead of editing the innit file is it possibe to automatically load the GUI for a particular user instead of for everyone... i mean once they enter their login name and password in console for the GUI to load up instead of them having to mess around in the console...

thank you...

maybe put "startx &" in .bashrc

Or for all users pput it into /etc/bash.bashrc

You could simply add the line startx to either their .bash_profile or to /etc/profile, I just tried it in /etc/profile and it worked like a charm.

thank you, i'll give it a try...

thanks, it worked (used the bash_profile route)

if you add it to /etc/profile, you cannot login to a normal console without starting X.
so .bash_profile or .profile in the home dir. is better.

egag

Doesn't that also try and start X when opening an xterm aswell, or at least it did when I tried that. You could do with a bit of checking before executing `startx`, something of the lines
You could even check X isn't running to start off with, but the above always met my needs

you're right.

but maybe testing with " ps -aux |grep X " is simpler.

edit: EDIT: you will still start a second X with ctrl-alt-F6, and then login

egag

yes true, I did think of this whilst writing it down here, but when I had X running I never felt the need to go to another ttyX console when I could open up another xterm. So it worked perfectly OK for my needs

yeah i noticed that as well, when openning konsole/xterm/etc i get some sort of message saying X is already running when the GUI is loaded automatically through .bash_profile...