How to enable autologin with Xfce

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Hi,

I’m using openSUSE 11.3 with Xfce 4.7.0 and I want to enable automatic login. What I have tried so far:

  1. YaST -> User and Group Management -> Expert Options -> Login Settings. This didn’t work because I have no “Login Settings” option in this menu.

  2. Editing variables “DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN” and “DISPLAYMANAGER_PASSWORD_LESS_LOGIN” via YaST -> /etc/sysconfig Editor. This didn’t work too and xdm was still asking about name and password no matter what I set here.

  3. I don’t know how to configure xdm, so I tried to replace xdm with gdm. Gdm worked, but application “gdmsetup” was missing from my installation (YaST simply don’t offer this package) and I don’t know how to set up gdm manually, so I ended without autologin again.

Any ideas? I’m very lazy and I really don’t want to type my name and password every time, not to mention that Xfce login screen in SUSE 11.3 looks really bad :frowning:

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/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager : DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=“YOUR_USER_NAME_HERE”. Should work on at least kdm en gdm. Mind, you do need a reboot…:slight_smile:

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Hi
In the DISPALYMANAGER you user your username, you don’t need to touch
the password one. Then in the windowmanager you need to use startxfce4
as the parameter.

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Thank you guys, problem solved. “DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN” AND gdm was the right combination (with xdm this didn’t work).