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

[david]

On 03/18/2013 05:20 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a silly lot of hoop-jumping just to save yourself from 
typing in your login ID.

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