Hi Steve Thanks for the additional info on the boot scripts. If the application is written in Tcl/Tk (as mine is) or Qt, then it is not necessary to start X with a window manager. For example : xinit -e /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm - Fires up X with a single x-terminal. Run this from one of the rc.d scripts (thank xsprite) , and you don't even need to login. This is fine as long as just one X-app is required or the program can spawn additional windows. Regards, Paul. On Saturday 01 December 2001 11:58 pm, Steve Fosdick wrote:
So, to get an X session without authentication there are a couple of options:
1. Read the documentation on a graphical login manager like 'gdm'. I know, for example, that gdm supports 'auto login' so maybe one of the others do too.
2. Write a wrapper around the 'startx' script which can then be places in one of the /etc/rc?.d directories to run as a standard system service.