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? >> >> >