Automatic login and startx at boot-up

arnuld · 06-01-2009, 06:37 AM

I want my system to do:

login
startx
emacs

All automatically. I tried searching the net and found all references to GDM or KDM. I don't use a DM, I just get a tty and then I login and use startx to run X.

Is there any way I can accomplish this ?

mostlyharmless · 06-01-2009, 10:56 AM

You can autostart in gdm with
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...ault_run-level
and autostart applications with
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...fedora-163113/

arnuld · 06-05-2009, 01:57 AM

Thats what exactly I said, I don't use GDM. Crappy Desktop thing takes lots of RAM for no good. Anyway, I have done that like this:

Installed mingetty and changed the /etc/inittab like this:

Code:

Old:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/6 linux


New:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin arnuld vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/6 linux

Added these lines to ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bashrc)

Code:

if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/vc/1 ]]; then
  startx
  logout
fi

and then finally put a line in my WM (window manager) to start emacs as soon as WM itself starts.

Its works fine now

. Everything I learned from Arch Wiki.