Auto login and `startx` without a display manager (systemd)

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Good stuff, glad you got it working

I'll edit the OP to reflect your very useful feedback -- thanks!

[Nili]

Heya there Head_on_a_Stick!!!

Good to be back, i was without system for 48h, during this time i fixed my mess mixing lenny with jessie let me outside.
...so glad to be back without formating

Ok lets go back right to question.

Perhaps you have posted somewhere, if so please guide me... Thank you.

ls -l /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants

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total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 19 15:01 getty@tty1.service -> /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service

I think you know what i am looking for, an automatic login for one tty (tty1 precise) and an auto startx from /home/nili/.profile

Using this code

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    ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -a <user name> %I $TERM

it's ok but log me in on both ttys 1&2. Let fix this first then checkup auto startx

[Head_on_a_Stick]

@Nili -- I think this may be a systemd bug.

AFAIU, the getty@tty1.service should *only* run for TTY1 but clearly this isn't happening.

On both my Arch & Debian systems, autologin is set for *all* TTYs

Does your system do this or is it only for TTYs 1&2?

Please post the output of:

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ls -lR /etc/systemd/system | grep -i tty

[Nili]

Then it may be such as you explain, perhaps a systemd issue. I have read and tried many ways during these days but none succeeded.
At the moment have turned off autologin, i'm only proceeding with auto startx this time. I really don't want to have many logged my username on other terminals.

I have two tty because... if you remember a thread and a chat that we have done therefore I have two because i choosed to use two tty.

Concretely, i have actived NAutoVTs=2 from "/etc/systemd/logind.conf" that reduces tty usages, so i chosed number 2.

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[Login]
NAutoVTs=2
#ReserveVT=6
#KillUserProcesses=no
#KillOnlyUsers=
#KillExcludeUsers=root
#InhibitDelayMaxSec=5
#HandlePowerKey=poweroff
#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
#HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
#HandleLidSwitch=suspend
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes
#IdleAction=ignore
#IdleActionSec=30min
#RuntimeDirectorySize=10%
#RemoveIPC=yes

I can test with more tty numbers, I believe that will be the same will autolog on every tty actived...
I will do a test tomorrow because today I have no more time sorry.

the output
nili@debian:~$ ls -lR /etc/systemd/system | grep -i tty

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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 19 15:01 getty.target.wants
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jul 19 15:01 getty@tty1.service -> /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service

[Head_on_a_Stick]

if you remember a thread and a chat that we have done therefore I have two because i choosed to use two tty.

From that thread:

Disabling TTYs via /etc/logind.conf saves *no resources whatsoever*

The only TTY that is spawned at boot is TTY1, the other TTYs are spawned on demand -- ie, they do not exist until you switch to them.

Unless you want a TTY for root login there really is no harm having autologin on all TTYs; it certainly doesn't use up any extra resources.

[Nili]

From that thread:

Disabling TTYs via /etc/logind.conf saves *no resources whatsoever*

Indeed there isn't any big memory benefits, simply an unnecessary fixation by my side I can bring back again as it was.

TTY1 = startx@WM || TTY2 = a backup console. This has been my goal. oK i'll leave so... manually auto login, automatically startx.

[mzsade]

Had mentioned somewhere i'd done a full install of Jessie on a 32 GB pen drive. Well, i tried this out on that.. cut the boot time by more than half, now i get what you meant by lightdm bloat, thank YOU!

[milomak]

instead of startx, how can i get kodi to run?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

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startx `which kodi`

Or quote the full path to the binary explicitly

[milomak]

like this?

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mythtv ~ # cat /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service | grep ExecStart
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -a mythtv %I $TERM

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mythtv@mythtv:~$ cat ~/.profile
[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx 'which /usr/bin/kodi'

[Head_on_a_Stick]

like this?
[...]

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mythtv@mythtv:~$ cat ~/.profile
[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx 'which /usr/bin/kodi'

Not quite, try:

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[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx /usr/bin/kodi

[ralph.ronnquist]

.. or maybe

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[[ -z $DISPLAY -a $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx /usr/bin/kodi

[milomak]

like this?
[...]

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mythtv@mythtv:~$ cat ~/.profile
[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx 'which /usr/bin/kodi'

Not quite, try:

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[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx /usr/bin/kodi

this worked. thanks

[lachlanp]

The topic is old and I have a slightly different need.

I have a touch display but no keyboard. I want to autologin and auto-run a gui based program built with QT

As suggested I have edited: /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/ ... y1.service to this:
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -a myname %I $TERM

As I still want to use the default gui console, I have not made any other changes.

However, I still get the login prompt on my default defaultgui display.

Can you suggest what I still need to change to get the auto-login

Regards
Lachlan

[GarryRicketson]

I noticed this :

Docs, Howtos, Tips & Tricks
Share your own howto's etc. Not for support questions!

Is what it says , on the board/ topic title , and then :

Post by lachlanp » 2016-05-09 06:21
The topic is old and I have a slightly different need.

It seems that the logical conclusion would be to start a new topic, in the "support" discussions.