also sprach Rob VanFleet (on Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:55:58AM -0500):
> I also tried the method of calling startx that automatically logs you
> out of the console, i.e.:
>
> startx -- :1 1>.startx.log 2>&1 & exit
>
> which does log me out of the console, but also doesn't bring up x (it
> seems
As Lukas Ruf so kindly pointed out to me, I was missing the obvious that
my terms were still parsing /etc/profile each time they were ran, so I
added a condition to check whether $DISPLAY contains a value or not, and
run 'startx && exit' if $DISPLAY is empty.
-Rob
I am trying to figure out the best method to automatically startx after
a user logs in from the console. I know I could accomplish easily by
using a graphical display manager, but I would prefer to avoid that if
at all possible. I have tried a couple of methods thus far, with less
than satisfacto
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