Re: startx gdm

[Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net>]

> Automatic startx should be as easy as adding it to .bash_profile
> (not .bashrc to not have it run for every xterm), but I didn't test
> it.

Yes.  Not only automatic startx, but the solution to all of life's
problems should be as easy as adding it to .bash_profile.

At any rate, I did solve getting my computer to autologin, with the
help of http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16348

It seems that editing /home/user/.bash_profile, and
editing /etc/inittab, is necessary.  Further, using rungetty rather
than getty is also helpful, apparently.

Briefly, for the autologin, in the /etc/inittab file, I
changed the first line from:

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1

to (note, my user is "mark"):

1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin mark 


and, for both starting x, and, specifically, starting
fluxbox as I've set it up, I added the following to .bash_profile:

if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
while [ 1 == 1 ]
        do
                startx /usr/bin/startfluxbox
                sleep 10
        done
fi 


Mark