Brian wrote:
On Sun 18 Oct 2015 at 08:10:54 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
David Wright wrote:
r>>> I don't know. I don't really understand your original
question. It
said "How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way?" [snip]
I have 2 machines.
One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE.
One is Jessie with Mate DE.
Desired user name to be "myexperiments" having a minimal set [TBD]
privileges.
Power on yields operating system.
Squeeze Gnome2 is probably using gdm. What is the output of
apt-get purge gdm
That command structure is either *MALICIOUS* or sign of terminal
ignorance.
Reading http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apt-get
suggests that
"apt-get -s purge gdm" would be much more reasonable.
My Squeeze machine is physically unavailable.
However, previous experiments APPEAR to IMPLY answer is gdm3.
Identical experiments run on Wheezy were a "flop". One reason
I've ignored that release as it required effort to get running
while not suggesting any benefits.
I do not know what Jessie Mate uses. What is the output of
apt-get purge <display_manager_on mate>
And just what might be <display_manager_on mate> sic/(sick)?
