[LAU] Autologin to locked desktop was: Re: LightWorks for Linux Demo

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Mon Mar 18 15:20:28 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 10:37 -0400, drew Roberts wrote:
> Perhaps what would be nice for some is to autologin a particular user and go 
> straight to a locked desktop with a screensaver.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this or the equivalent?

By not using a display manager for login, but by starting Xfce
by .xinitrc directly or what needs to be used to start it + screensaver,
e.g. gdmflexiserver or xscreensaver-command -lock or similar, I won't
make inquires now, but there for sure is a way to do it.

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