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On 03/19/2013 04:07 AM, drew Roberts wrote:

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> 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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David

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