<html><br />On Thursday, January 19, 2017 03:00 CET, "Andrew (AFPup) Stadt" <acstadt@stadt.ca> wrote:<br /> <blockquote type="cite" cite="914d017d-37fa-1bfb-55a9-0421b3d680d4@stadt.ca">On 1/18/2017 2:31 AM, Peter Carlsson wrote:<br /><br />> Hello!<br />><br />> I would like to know what display manager and window manager people<br />> are using.<br />><br />> I used to have a line in /etc/inittab but I think that method<br />> was deprecated in one Debian update a year or more ago.<br />><br />> I then started to use SLiM and recently changed to LightDM.<br />><br />> For my Debian (Jessie/stable) MythTV system I use XFCE4, but I have<br />> a problem (with both SLiM and LightDM) that it sometimes fails to<br />> autologin. It feels like a race condition where it attempts to<br />> autologin before the window manager is fully started.<br />><br />> So I would be happy if people could tell me what combination of<br />> display manager and window manager you are using.<br />><br />> It must support autologin but doesn't have to be fancy or anything.<br />><br />> Best regards,<br />> Peter Carlsson<br />><br />2nd on the ratpoison, though I use an auto-login shell (mingetty,<br />lauched via systemd /w restart) for my frontends (as they are dedicated<br />front-ends, not used as desktops - ever.). I know with this setup, I<br />don't technically need a WM, but it does help with some of the<br />keyboard/focus issues I've had in the past... but can't get much more<br />light weight then ratpoison.<br /><br />Andrew.<br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />mythtv-users mailing list<br />mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br />http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br />http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette<br />MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org</blockquote><br />Have you looked at nodm?<br /><br />I'm having the opposite problem on a pi, minimal desktop system that I have and will be getting rid of it this evening, but it seems to do exactly what you want.<br /><br />https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nodm<br /><br />BR.<br /><br />--Marius--<br /><br /><br /> </html>