[TriLUG] Graphical Login Help

Paul D. Boyle boyle at laue.chem.ncsu.edu
Fri May 31 10:26:52 EDT 2002


Tanner Lovelace wrote:> 
> On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 10:15, Paul D. Boyle wrote:
> > I am migrating one of my systems from Redhat 6.x to SuSE 7.3.  Initially
> > there was a nice graphical login (I assume kdm), but in diddling with

> Are you saying it boots up and automatically logs you in?  I 
> know Mandrake can do this, and I assume other distros can do the
> same but I have no idea how it's done.  You might search for
> something like "X auto-login" if that's what is happening, though.

No, there is no automatic login.  It comes up in text mode (actually
tty1 is framebuffer terminal while the other tty's are text mode.
I can login as mortal user on one of the tty's and do "startx" and
I get into X ok.

Paul


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