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?
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