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Thread: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a login manager

  1. #11
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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    It doesn't appear to be working on Dapper, at least for me. Here's what I get:

    mike@Home:~$ sudo gcc-3.4 -o autologin autologin.c
    /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

    And I also tried this:

    mike@Home:~$ sudo gcc-4.0 -o autologin autologin.c
    autologin.c: In function ‘main’:
    autologin.c:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘execlp’
    /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

    Any ideas??
    All day I suffer within the depths of M$ hell. Errors here, spyware there. It's nice to come home to a warm cup of Ubuntu, and a cold beer.

  2. #12
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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    hmm, that's the last thing i would have expected to fail. the autoconf.c is a very simple c file...
    have you tried compiling any other c programs to see if that works? maybe you are missing some packages...?

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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    Quote Originally Posted by brady618
    It doesn't appear to be working on Dapper, at least for me. Here's what I get:

    mike@Home:~$ sudo gcc-3.4 -o autologin autologin.c
    /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

    And I also tried this:

    mike@Home:~$ sudo gcc-4.0 -o autologin autologin.c
    autologin.c: In function ‘main’:
    autologin.c:2: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘execlp’
    /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

    Any ideas??
    Ok, you need to use gcc-3.4 (not gcc-4.0) so first run:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install gcc-3.4
    then recompile it using:
    Code:
    sudo gcc-3.4 -o autologin autologin.c
    That should work fine - if not come back for more help.
    I have successfully compiled it on dapper so I know its possible.
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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    You need to

    sudo apt-get install build-essential
    to get the program to compile rather than just installing gcc-3.4 as this also includes the required development libraries.

    At least the program it managed to compile for me after I did this. It does install a few other things not strictly necessary for this but which will come in handy eventually (e.g. kernel headers, g++).

    EDIT: but you still need gcc-3.4
    Last edited by skimitar; May 27th, 2006 at 01:46 PM.

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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    ehrm, actually, you dont need gcc3.4, it compiles just fine with gcc4.0 as well. only difference is that it throws out a [harmless] warning when you compile with 4.0, but it compiles just the same.

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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    When I do apt-get remove gdm, it wants to remove xubuntu-desktop, too... so I guess I better don't do this. Anyways nice How-To!

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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    You don't need the xubuntu-desktop package - it's just used to easily install everything required for xubuntu and once everything is installed can safely be removed from the system.
    Regards,
    Haegin
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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    Ah ok, thanks If I don't remove gdm it will always get started..

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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    Quote Originally Posted by nickless View Post
    Ah ok, thanks If I don't remove gdm it will always get started..
    you dont have to uninstall gdm to stop it from starting. just remove it from /etc/rc2.d/
    (or use the handy tool called "sysv-rc-conf" to edit your runlevel config. then you can just simply uncheck gdm from runlevel 2 (which is the default ubuntu runlevel) )

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    Re: HOWTO: Automatically login to XFCE without a boot loader

    How can I get rid off the X11 usual ugly grey background? Gdm used to take care of that by replacing it with a nicer color...

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