>
> *W95 required a login, although*
> * it was a blank password, as I recall).*
>

Getting way off topic here but . . . Windows 95 had zero passwd protection.
You could set a passwd, but it would not do anything . . . so a person
could enter a blank passwd at the screen saver, and just log back in - heh.

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 21:12:00 -0700, John Baker
> <[email protected]> declaimed the following:
>
> >Hopefully I will be able to get systemd to start my GUI program. I would
> >like it to start up upon resetting the BBB. Or maybe I can have a script
> >on the Debian desktop that I can get to trigger my GUI program? Somehow
> >I need to make it easy for the users to start the code, not requiring
> >the mouse and keyboard. Any suggestions?
> >
>         I'm not accustomed to systems that "start" in a user account (at
> least,
> not since my TRS-80 and Amiga days -- even W95 required a login, although
> it was a blank password, as I recall).
>
>         Possibly something in the account .profile can determine if an
> X-window
> environment is available and start your program as a background task?
>
>         I don't know under what conditions the X-window environment is
> started... Does it detect HDMI/LCD connection, or does it always create an
> auto-login X-window session regardless...
> --
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