On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 22:29 +0000, Alex wrote: > You said the code was wrong. does it mean it does now auto-login? (or is > it an interpretation failure again?)
Yes and no. What it *should* do is auto-login to the command line as root, just like a CD that is not X-based will do. However, root's /root/.bashrc should be setup to do the following: #1. Determine if "nox" appears on the command line, if it does, abort #2. Determine if X is even installed #3. Look for /etc/startx (created by catalyst automatically for the "generic-livecd" livecd/type #4. Remove /etc/startx, so it doesn't try to auto-start X repeatedly #5. Start X as the first user defined in livecd/users using "su" #6. Spit out the MOTD again so you can see it when you switch back to the console Now, this is what it is *designed* to do. If it doesn't do this, then it's a bug and it needs to be fixed in the code. What this will *not* do is setup any kind of auto-login via any display manager. If you want the display manager configured, you need to do so yourself. The reason for this is actually pretty simple, we've found that people's tastes when it comes to how their display manager looks is much more rabid than we'd like. Using "startx" and allowing the user to customize via *either* livecd/xsession to start a particular session or livecd/xinitrc to start something that isn't even defined by a session gives the user the maximum flexibility, without making it overly complex. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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