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

[drew Roberts]

On Wednesday 20 March 2013 04:37:08 david wrote:
> On 03/19/2013 04:07 AM, drew Roberts wrote:
> > On Monday 18 March 2013 14:41:05 david wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > And dead air is better? There are situations where a machine needs to
> > start back up and go properly into operation after a reboot without a
> > person being present. If your situation does not call for that, fine.
> > Some people deal with situations where such a feature is valuable. Why
> > should they not explore the best way to do what needs to be done? It has
> > nothing to do with saving keystrokes. It has to do with no one being
> > present to make those keystrokes.
>
> That's true, I wasn't thinking of it as a server situation. So be cool, eh?

No probs, it is just that we often don't think of all the wonderful ways 
people might be using something and so question their desires too soon.

all the best,

drew