[SOLVED] Ho do I get xfce to run at boot

EDDY1 · 12-01-2012, 12:52 PM

I installed Xorg, X11 & am able to use startx to get to x
I have installed xfce4, xfwm & also can get to xfec-session.

Now I would like to have xfce4 start on boot.
I have however gotten xfce to start on boot on a prior archlinux install, but cannot get it to start on boot in my lfs install.

I've compared inittab on my Debian install to lfs nothing different between the 2.
I cannot find any documentation other than archlinux & gentoo documentation which refers to making entries to xinitrc to start desktop at boot but I think the config files are different.

After posting I see that gdm has a blfs bootscript going to chek it out.

Keith Hedger · 12-01-2012, 02:01 PM

Add:
id:5:initdefault:

somwhere at the front of inittab

And:

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

Somwhere at the end and change "/usr/bin/slim" to whatever login manager you are using or you can probably use "startx" or "startxfce4"

EDDY1 · 12-01-2012, 02:41 PM

Thank you that worked
x:5:respawn:startxfce4 >& /dev/null

Keith Hedger · 12-03-2012, 10:55 AM

If you don't want to run a login manager you can try what I do for my rescue partition:

Use

Code:

id:3:initdefault:

in inittab as the default runlevel.

Copy this:

Code:

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

into ~./profile

Put this ( if you use xfce4, change as needed ):

Code:

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session xfce4-session

as the last line of ~/.xinitrc.

Then if you login on tty1 as normal ( login/password ) your X session will be started or you can login on another tty to start a shell session.

This is a good way of starting an X session without having to install a login manager, ( I use this to login to my rescue/backup/restore partition ).

EDDY1 · 12-03-2012, 02:53 PM

I am able to login to xfce, but the only problems I'm experiencing are:
Only root login & login is password-less.
I would like to login to my user account, which isn't in xfce login screen.
Also if I login to root I want to put password.

Keith Hedger · 12-03-2012, 03:50 PM

In inittab

Code:

id:5:initdefault:
...
...
x:5:respawn:/etc/defaultuser >& /dev/null

Create file /etc/defaultuser containing:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

USERNAME=keithhedger

su $USERNAME -c  startx

Make executable

Code:

sudo chmod +x /etc/defaultuser

Change keithhedger to whatever user you want to auto login.
Reboot - Voila!

EDDY1 · 12-04-2012, 01:42 AM

Thank you. That helped now I can just use su or sudo after login instead of always being in root.

ssanthshtech · 05-21-2013, 10:54 AM

followed same as above but iam using xinit. want to display window launcher on boot time using xinit with user account and having only one tty (tty1).

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

su -c "xinit ./myapp" <username>

fi

now my app wants to display at boot time without asking password in user account

EDDY1 · 05-21-2013, 12:22 PM

Is this a LFS system?
post #2 & #6 is what got it going

ssanthshtech · 05-21-2013, 11:40 PM

# Begin /etc/inittab

id:3:initdefault:

si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 0
l1:S1:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 6

ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/bin/echo "Sorry, can't do that."

#su:S016

nce:/sbin/sulogin

#1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty1 9600
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -n -l /usr/sbin/autologin tty1 9600
#2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty2 9600
#3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty3 9600
#4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty4 9600
#5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty5 9600
#6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty6 9600
#c0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyS0 vt100

# End /etc/inittab

using only one terminal

EDDY1 · 05-22-2013, 02:12 AM

You should have 6 terminals try id:5

ssanthshtech · 05-22-2013, 02:46 AM

ok i tried like that also

# Begin /etc/inittab

#id:3:initdefault:

id:5:initdefault:

si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc sysinit

l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 0
l1:S1:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 1
l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 2
l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 3
l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 4
l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 5
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/init.d/rc 6

#su:S016

nce:/sbin/sulogin

#1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -I '\033(K' tty1 9600
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -n -l /usr/sbin/autologin tty1 9600
#2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty2 9600
#3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty3 9600
#4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty4 9600
#5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty5 9600
#6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty6 9600
#c0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 115200 ttyS0 vt100

x:5:respawn:/etc/defaultuser >& /dev/null

# End /etc/inittab

created a file /etc/defaultuser
#!/bin/bash

USERNAME=user

su $USERNAME -c xinit

sudo chmod +x /etc/defaultuser

i have a autologin.c file

int main()
{
execlp( "login", "login", "-f", "user", 0);
}

compiled using gcc autologin.c -o autologin

and saved it to /usr/sbin/autologin

Now my system booting as user and it cant display xinit at startup(boot).

ssanthshtech · 05-24-2013, 02:57 AM

Any Suggestions wr iam wrong

EDDY1 · 05-24-2013, 10:01 AM

What are you trying to accomplish getting rid of autologin, or have the 6 terminals available.
For 6 terminals uncomment the 1's that you commmented out.
As far as autologin you've put a script in for autologin, not sure if it should be removed or changed, someone here can help you, if that is what you desire.