Re: Autologin to X session (Debian 8)?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 08 June 2015 10:53:40 Juha Heinanen wrote:
> Teemu Likonen writes:
> > > It seems that it has no effect anymore in Debian 8 (Jessie), probably
> > > because of the new init system (systemd). So how do I get similar
> > > functionality with the new systemd init system?
> >
> > One option is /etc/rc.local:
> >
> >     /bin/su -l USER -c /usr/bin/startx </dev/tty8 >/dev/tty8 2>&1 &
> >     exit 0
>
> I noticed that lightdm has lots of autologin options:
>
> #pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin
> #autologin-guest=false
> #autologin-user=
> #autologin-user-timeout=0
> #autologin-in-background=false
> #autologin-session=UNIMPLEMENTED

I use tdm (Trinity Display Manager) for this purpose, and have in the past 
used kdm (from KDE3) and gdm, though not gdm3.

Lisi