Automatic login and startx?

Plastech · 05-23-2007, 01:54 AM

I am turning a (very very old and limited) debian laptop into a digital photoframe. I have all of my scripts up and running, but now I would like to have them start automatically when I boot the computer. My question is:

Can I set up debian to log into one of my user accounts automatically without gdm, kdm, or the like? This laptop is such a POS that any extra processes really strain it. I would much rather just "startx" with some scripts I set to run at boot (somehow).

Is this possible?

Thanks,
P

Tinkster · 05-23-2007, 02:15 AM

If you're only going to display images ... have you considered
fbi or the like? There may be no need for X all together (and
if it's so old and underpowered .. ).

Cheers,
Tink

Plastech · 05-23-2007, 02:24 AM

Thank you, I'll look into that. I was planning on using feh.....that requires x, right?

Tinkster · 05-23-2007, 03:56 AM

feh does indeed require X11 (to the best of my knowledge, I've
never used it).

Cheers,
Tink

Emerson · 05-23-2007, 08:33 AM

Check out the nuts-n-bolts method. http://linuxgazette.net/issue72/chung.html

Plastech · 05-23-2007, 12:04 PM

Found my answer here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3121

Tinkster · 05-23-2007, 01:17 PM

Good job ... and will FBI suffice, or did you resort to using X
after all? =}

Cheers,
Tink

Plastech · 05-23-2007, 01:29 PM

I think I'm going to use feh and X only because feh allows for recursive image searching and flocl by default puts all of the images it downloads in different folders. Quite frankly, I've had enough of changing defaults for a while

Thank you for your help.

Tinkster · 05-23-2007, 01:48 PM

Heh. Fair enough :}

Just bear in mind that you could always invoke fbi with

Code:

fbi `find /path/to/pix -type f -iname "*jpg"`

;}

If feh of course refreshes all directory entries to pick
up updates/additions the script for fbi would have to be
way more complex...

Cheers,
Tink