[mythtv-users] What display manager (and window manager) to choose

[Mike Perkins]

On 24/01/17 21:04, Peter Carlsson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:33:33PM +0000, Michael Drons wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I would like to know what display manager and window manager people
>> are using.
>>
>> I used to have a line in /etc/inittab but I think that method
>> was deprecated in one Debian update a year or more ago.
>>
>> I then started to use SLiM and recently changed to LightDM.
>>
>> For my Debian (Jessie/stable) MythTV system I use XFCE4, but I have
>> a problem (with both SLiM and LightDM) that it sometimes fails to
>> autologin. It feels like a race condition where it attempts to
>> autologin before the window manager is fully started.
>>
>> So I would be happy if people could tell me what combination of
>> display manager and window manager you are using.
>>
>> It must support autologin but doesn't have to be fancy or anything.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Peter Carlsson
>
> Thanks to all who responded.
>
> Now I have also tried nodm but the result is the same. Sometimes it
> fails and sometimes it works.
>
> I would appreciate if someone could look at my settings below and tell
> me if something seems wrong.
>
> htpc:~# cat /etc/default/nodm
> # nodm configuration
>
> # Set NODM_ENABLED to something different than 'false' to enable nodm
> NODM_ENABLED=true
>
> # User to autologin for
> NODM_USER=mythtv
>
> # First vt to try when looking for free VTs
> NODM_FIRST_VT='7'
>
> # X session
> NODM_XSESSION=/etc/X11/Xsession
>
> # Options for the X server
> NODM_X_OPTIONS='-nolisten tcp'
>
> # If an X session will run for less than this time in seconds, nodm will wait an
> # increasing bit of time before restarting the session.
> NODM_MIN_SESSION_TIME=60
>
> htpc:~# cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager
> /usr/sbin/nodm
>
> I also have this, but I don't know if it is used by nodm.
>
> htpc:~# cat /home/mythtv/.xsession
> #!/bin/sh
> exec ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession xfce4-session
>
I won't comment about the rest of it but that exec at the end won't work. You need to supply a full 
pathname, not just the name of the executable.

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Mike Perkins