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== Tips == | == Tips == | ||
Revision as of 17:38, 14 October 2012
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A display manager can be used to provide a login screen and start the X server. This article explains how this can be done using an existing virtual terminal.
To manually start X, startx or xinit are used. Both will execute ~/.xinitrc, which may be customized to start the window manager of choice as described in the xinitrc article.
Shell profile file
Note: This runs X on the same tty used to login, which is required in order to maintain the login session.
- For Bash, add the following to the bottom of
~/.bash_profile. If the file does not exist, copy a skeleton version from/etc/skel/.bash_profile.
- For Zsh, add it to
~/.zprofileinstead.
(( $(fgconsole 2>/dev/null) == 1 )) && exec startx -- vt1
Tips
- This method can be combined with automatic login to virtual console.
- If you would like to remain logged in when X is killed, remove
exec. - To redirect the output of the X session to a file, create an alias:
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alias startx='startx &> ~/.xlog'
- Alternatively, you can use
xinitinstead ofstartx(sincestartxis an extension anyway).