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#! Die Hard

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2012-02-17

Posts: 638

Another way to do without a login/display manager

First I think this is the first how to I have posted here so be gentle!
I wanted to get rid of login managers like GDM or lightdm
so I uninstalled them and put stuff in .xinitrc

strange but it seemed to get bypassed or not noticed and my default openbox would startup

so another way:
I installed nodm

sudo apt-get install nodm

after it's installed you edit two lines in the NoDM configuration file

sudo nano /etc/default/nodm

NODM_ENABLED=false
NODM_USER=root

The first line  change to:

NODM_ENABLED=true

The second line change to the username you want to be logged in with.
in my case
NODM_USER=dk

Lastly you need to tell your system what type of session to start when X is spawned.
So for instance If you want to use the herbstluft as your desktop,  in your ~/.xsession file I add the following line:

exec herbstluft --locked
dont put the --locked part for other window managers herbstluft just likes it like that

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uname

#! Junkie

Registered: 2013-03-15

Posts: 484

Re: Another way to do without a login/display manager

You do not need a display manager like "nodm". You can deinstall "nodm" and "lightdm" ... After reboot you only get a text console. If that works i can post the configuration for automatic login to console 1 and automatic "startx".

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#! Die Hard

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2012-02-17

Posts: 638

Re: Another way to do without a login/display manager

if you notice in my post i said
"I wanted to get rid of login managers like GDM or lightdm
so I uninstalled them and put stuff in .xinitrc
strange but it seemed to get bypassed or not noticed and my default openbox would startup"
What I meant was I tried doing without a window manager and just putting stuff in .xinitrc but even though I would put an entry to start say ratpoison - openbox would still start up!
thats why i resorted to this method and it works because typing starx didn't work for me.

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#! Junkie

Registered: 2013-03-15

Posts: 484

Re: Another way to do without a login/display manager

I think there is a display manager installed. Find the display manager in /etc/pam.d or /etc/init.d
If not find "openbox" with

fgrep -R openbox /home/user

Last edited by uname (2013-10-17 14:49:26)

bigbenaugust

#! Junkie

From: the 919

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 341

Re: Another way to do without a login/display manager

[[ $(fgconsole 2>/dev/null) == 1 ]] && exec startx -- vt1

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#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2013-05-26

Posts: 211

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Re: Another way to do without a login/display manager

I added this to the end of the .profile file in my home directory.
It executes startx after I logged in to tty1 and logs me out when it gets killed.

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