automatically starting gui after login

marsques · 07-25-2005, 02:22 PM

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...

huibert.alblas · 07-25-2005, 02:30 PM

maybe put "startx &" in .bashrc

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

leonscape · 07-25-2005, 02:32 PM

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.

marsques · 07-25-2005, 02:37 PM

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

marsques · 07-25-2005, 03:01 PM

thanks, it worked (used the bash_profile route)

egag · 07-25-2005, 03:33 PM

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

phil.d.g · 07-25-2005, 03:53 PM

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

Code:

#!/bin/bash
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
do
    if [ `tty` = "/dev/tty$i" ]
    then
        startx
        exit
    fi
done

You could even check X isn't running to start off with, but the above always met my needs

egag · 07-25-2005, 04:11 PM

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

phil.d.g · 07-25-2005, 04:30 PM

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

marsques · 07-25-2005, 06:38 PM

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...