agetty autologin with Xfce and OpenRC

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agetty autologin with Xfce and OpenRC

10 October 2017, 23:06:10

Details of creating a tty service were from agetty-guide.md in the OpenRC source package.
# cd /etc/init.d
# ln -s agetty agetty.tty7
# cd /etc/conf.d
# cp agetty agetty.tty7

Edit agetty_options in /etc/conf.d/agetty.tty7
agetty_options="-a <your_user_name>"

(Replace <your_user_name> above along with the angle brackets)
(Optionally add "--noclear" option in agetty.tty1 as well for a nicer display)

Add this to ~/.bashrc
# start x on login
if (( [[ -z $DISPLAY && ! -e /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ]] ) && (rc-status -r | grep -q 'default')); then
exec xinit -- /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7
fi

Contents of ~/.xinitrc
This should be executable, make it executable with $ chmod a+x .xinitrc if needed.
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc Executed by startx
exec startxfce4

Run these commands in a terminal:
#rc-update delete xdm
#rc-update add agetty.tty7 default

Wish for luck and reboot!
It works for my Manjaro OpenRC conversion.

Re: agetty autologin with Xfce and OpenRC

Reply #1 – 16 October 2017, 15:06:11

/etc/conf.d/agetty.tty1 was overwritten on an update. I had somehow expected it to be treated as a conf file, given it's location.
/etc/conf.d/agetty.tty7 which had been created was not.
Adding this to /etc/pacman.conf fixes this if agetty.tty1 was modified:
NoUpgrade = /etc/conf.d/agetty.tty1
Otherwise this autologin setup has continued to work without problems.

Re: agetty autologin with Xfce and OpenRC

Reply #2 – 16 October 2017, 15:17:14

Quote from: ####### – on 16 October 2017, 15:06:11

NoUpgrade = /etc/conf.d/agetty.tty1

Please use absolute path for NoUpgrade, they don't work with path that starts with a slash

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NoUpgrade = etc/conf.d/agetty.tty1

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave#Systemwide_backup_files

Re: agetty autologin with Xfce and OpenRC

Reply #3 – 16 October 2017, 15:58:34

Thanks for pointing out that, or the next upgrade would have seen the same problem again!