Also, check the man page for the new XenoDM in base. It appears to offer
autologin via Xresources. I haven't gotten myself familiarized with it yet,
but I'd recommend looking at that before installing a third party display
manager if you want to be dropped straight into a user session on boot.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Ax0n <a...@h-i-r.net> wrote:

> I'm using slim as the Display Manager on 6.1-RELEASE on my main laptop,
> with Lumina for the time being as my DE. I just added the following to the
> end of /etc/slim.conf and it does auto-login for me. Frustratingly, "log
> out" immediately logs me back in instead of prompting. If you're okay with
> that, then give it a go.
>
> auto_login          yes
> default_user        axon
>
> Slim obeys the .xsession script for whatever Desktop Environment or Window
> Manager you've chosen, or you can adjust the default sessions in slim.conf
> as well. Both my .xsession and .xinitrc contain this line that starts up
> Lumina.
>
> exec start-lumina-desktop
>
> Cheers
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Sha'ul <sh...@riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to figure how setup an auto login from boot to some kind of GUI
>> desktop interface. What are my options? I'm not interested in Gnome 3, but
>> I will use anything else like Lumina, KDE, XFCE, etc. as long as it can
>> load straight into desktop environment when I turn on computer. Which
>> ones, besides Gnome 3, support autologin?
>>
>>
>

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