autologin with lxdm

Heiko Adams fedora-updates at heiko-adams.de
Wed Aug 10 22:10:05 UTC 2011


Am 10.08.2011 23:53, schrieb Christoph Wickert:
> Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 23:33 +0200 schrieb Heiko Adams: 
>> Am 10.08.2011 23:23, schrieb Christoph Wickert:
>>> Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 22:43 +0200 schrieb Heiko Adams: 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> can anyone tell me how I've to configure lxdm to do an autologin into xfce?
>>>
>>> Please look into /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf:
>>>
>>>         [base]
>>>         autologin=heiko
>>>         # session=/usr/bin/startlxde
>>>
>>> Pretty straight forward, isn't it? ;)
>>>
>>> The session is better be set in /etc/sysconfig/desktop as described in
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LXDE#Make_LXDE_the_default_Desktop
>>>
>> That's exaclty what I've tried already without success and without any
>> error message. I just got back to the login window and that's it.
> 
> What *exactly* have you tried?
> Did you set the session in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf or
> in /etc/sysconfig/desktop?
> Did you verify the path to /usr/bin/startxfce4 is correct?
> Nothing in /var/log/lxdm.log?
> 
> Please also try with selinux=0 to make sure it's not SELinux.
> 
I modified the lxdm.conf and created /etc/sysconfig/desktop with
"PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startxfce4".

/var/log/lxdm.log says only
> ** Message: quit code 1
-- 
Regards,

Heiko Adams


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