Comments on: Since I mentioned it http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/28/since-i-mentioned-it/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Randy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/28/since-i-mentioned-it/#comment-37421 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:59:08 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/01/28/since-i-mentioned-it/#comment-37421 I tried this method (on Arch). It’s OK and works well but what I didn’t like was that when I exited out of X, I got completely logged out of my account (i.e. I ended up at a login prompt. So then, to shutdown my laptop, I had to login to root and then enter poweroff. So I got tired of that really fast. I ended up using the bash_login method on the arch wiki, listed under “Method 3″ http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_boot

It’s not an “autologin when I boot” method (I still have to login manually after boot), but X starts automatically after I log in and I don’t need to use a login manager. And when I exit out of X, I get dumped back to the console from which I can sudo poweroff or other command line stuff if I need to.

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