Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

Brian wrote:
> On Sun 18 Oct 2015 at 08:10:54 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > David Wright wrote:
> > >
r>>> I don't know. I don't really understand your original 
question. It
> > said "How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way?" [snip]
> >
> > I have 2 machines.
> > One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE.
> > One is Jessie with Mate DE.
> > Desired user name to be "myexperiments" having a minimal set [TBD]
> > privileges.
> > Power on yields operating system.
>
> Squeeze Gnome2 is probably using gdm. What is the output of
>
>    apt-get purge gdm

That command structure is either *MALICIOUS* or sign of terminal 
ignorance.
Reading http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apt-get 
suggests that
   "apt-get -s purge gdm"    would be much more reasonable.

My Squeeze machine is physically unavailable.
However, previous experiments APPEAR to IMPLY answer  is gdm3.
Identical experiments run on Wheezy were a "flop". One reason 
I've ignored that release as it required effort to get running 
while not suggesting any benefits.

> I do not know what Jessie Mate uses. What is the output of
>
>    apt-get purge <display_manager_on mate>

And just what might be <display_manager_on mate> sic/(sick)?