Turn off GDM

[Konstantin Svist]

On 12/06/2010 03:29 PM, Phil Meyer wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 04:03 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to turn off GDM and auto-login the user, instead?
>>
>> Note: I can probably go through the startup scripts and figure out how
>> to hack it together, the question is more along the lines of "is there a
>> commonly used place where this is done?"
>>
>> 1st guess: change defaultinit to 3, set user to auto-login in tty (how?)
>> and run startxfce4 in user's .bashrc
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> change: /etc/gdm/custom.conf
>
> There are at least two methods for auto-login using GDM, with one
> difference being a 'wait' to allow some other action before the login.
>
> http://projects.gnome.org/gdm/docs/2.14/configuration.html
>
>
> The first option -- no wait, is the AutomaticLoginEnable/AutomaticLogin
> pair.
>
> The second option, with wait, is the:
> TimedLoginEnable/TimedLogin/TimedLoginDelay triplet.
>
> Good luck!

Actually I already tried both of those, they don't seem to work in F14 :(
That, or I messed something up...