[gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
fei huang wrote: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. Install it anyway and use the autologin feature. I know that KDM supports it, and probably GDM too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Nikos Chantziaras (rea...@arcor.de) [20.03.09 17:18]: fei huang wrote: I don't have any xdm, gdm stuff but would like to start my windows manager directly at startup, cause I'm the only one that use it. Install it anyway and use the autologin feature. I know that KDM supports it, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread Tom
Or use qingy :) It uses directfb, but its very lean, and you can set it to autologin I think...which would probably not even use dircetfb, as qingy also has a 'text-fallback-mode'. Try it, you'll like it ;-) Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: start X at startup without a login manager

2009-03-20 Thread fei huang
thank you all for the help! the problem is finally solved. thanks James! I realized that the bash is not a login shell when invoked that way, and my locale variable in .bash_profile did not take effect. the command line now becomes: *su -l myname -c '-l' 'startx' * and worked! thanks