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

[Peripatus]

Head_on_a_Stick, thank you!

FWIW, I can confirm that the procedure works, without modification, for my system running BunsenLabs Helium (i.e. ~Debian Stretch).

Makes for a real fast boot-to-GUI -- and near-instant resume from Suspend! Ideal for an older computer mainly used as an internet tv.

No upgrade-proofness tested yet.

[NB: To anyone else who initially mistypes their username in the override.conf file (no capital letters! ), and reboots to find only a blinking cursor: don't panic; hit Ctl+Alt+F2 to open an auxiliary terminal; login with the correct username and password; optionally start the GUI by typing startx; fix the typo in the file; reboot; enjoy the smoothness.]

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I can confirm that the procedure works, without modification, for my system running BunsenLabs Helium (i.e. ~Debian Stretch).

BunsenWhat?

But anyway, yes, I've had it working in stretch and buster as well so I've changed the OP to reflect this.

[Peripatus]

BunsenWhat?

Are you kidding me? Just noticed a rather active head on a stick over at the BunsenLabs forums...

Either way, I installed it just recently -- it's wonderful!

cheerio

[Head_on_a_Stick]

rather active

Not any more

[Peripatus]

rather active

Not any more

Oh Should we take heed?

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Should we take heed?

No, not at all, BL is one of the more excellent distributions out there, I just prefer vanilla Debian

[bedtime]

I like how you dealt with issuing the startx command:

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[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec startx

You negated the need for an 'if' command—clever! Always nice to do a command as efficiently as possible!

Thanx!

[nyu-98]

It's work , but now i see this in auth.log

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gnome-keyring-daemon[640]: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: No such file or directory

i'm using debian 10 with mate desktop.


EDIT:
fixed with https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN ... PAM_method

[mrowl]

Hello All,
I followed the original howto and it worked fine for me with Debian 10.1 + Enlightenment DR16. I wanted to go further, though, and I don't know where to look at. My ultimate goal is to have the same Plymouth "theme" as I have in Enlightenment in that way the auto-logon executes and X starts at "the background" of the Plymouth skin (I see the Plymouth boot screen during the whole time and don't see any console output until I finally arrive to my E desktop) and when E16 starts I'd start also screen lock - this would effectively replace any DM for me but also gives some security measures.

My "very big" problem is that when bootup finishes, Plymouth closes the bootup screen and I can see the console autologin, including hostname and "Last login" lines. (Of course I could hide startx messages and motd easily.)

I understand that starting X includes changing the video driver and screen resolution so I don't expect a seamless transition from Plymouth screen to X's screen but I want to make this transition as smooth as possible (e.g. black screen for a second is OK). I couldn't find agetty parameter that suppress output and putting " > /dev/null 2&1" at the end of the systemd override file Exec line didn't help.

Do you have a tip where I should continue, please?
Thanks,
Mr 0wl

[wizard10000]

No, not at all, BL is one of the more excellent distributions out there, I just prefer vanilla Debian

Same. My openbox install still uses a (slightly modified) #! theme

[mrowl]

My ultimate goal is to have the same Plymouth "theme" as I have in Enlightenment in that way the auto-logon executes and X starts at "the background" of the Plymouth skin (I see the Plymouth boot screen during the whole time and don't see any console output until I finally arrive to my E desktop)

I somewhat solved the above.

/etc/systemd/system/getty@.service.d/override.conf:

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[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -i -J --nohostname --skip-login --login-options "-f <username>" %I 38400 linux


...and I needed a touch ~/.hushlogin, too.

Now I only need to figure out how I can keep plymouth background on the screen further.