View source for Getty as display manager

This guide shows how you can use getty as display manager.

== Choose window manager ==

If you use <code>fi</code> keyboard layout and <code>dwm</code> as window manager, you would set the following in your <code>~/.xinitrc</code>:

{{file|name=~/.xinitrc|desc=setting up keyboard layout and window manager|body=
setxkbmap fi
exec dwm
}}

== Start X on login to tty1 ==

Start X session when you login to first virtual terminal. By default this should happen on the first freed terminal, tty7 if agetty is taking up the 1-6 as per /etc/inittab describes.

Add the following line in top of your <code>~/.bashrc</code>:

{{file|name=~/.bashrc|desc=Autostart X on login to tty1|body=
[[ $(tty) = "/dev/tty1" ]] && exec startx
}}

== Autologin ==

Modify <code>/etc/inittab</code>:

{{file|name=/etc/inittab|desc=Autologin|body=
# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -a username 38400 tty1 linux
}}
{{important|If you want start X straight from autologin in inittab, enter the code from the above .bashrc in ~/.bash_profile instead.}}
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