Turn off GDM

[Phil Meyer]

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!