This program automatically logs in a specified user in and runs the xinit program.
On a sysvinit system, the benefit of using this, rather than starting xinit directly from inittab, is that you get the privileges as defined in the PAM rules. Also, the program terminates when X is quit. Thus it can be run repeatedly from inittab and automatically log the user in every time.
autox has successfully been used for the same purpose in on an Upstart based system, and a Runit based system.
Simply make and put the binary where you want it. Make sure you install
autox.pam as /etc/pam.d/autox.
env USER=username
env DISPLAY=:0.0
description "autox startup script"
author "Start in X session on boot"
emits login-session-start
emits desktop-session-start
start on runlevel [5] #(filesystem and stopped udevtrigger)
stop on runlevel [0136]
respawn
#script
exec /usr/local/bin/autox $USER 2>/tmp/autox.log
#end script
#!/bin/sh
USER=username
exec 2>&1
exec setsid -w agetty -a $USER -n -l /usr/local/bin/autox -o $USER tty7 38400 linuxNote: your .xinitrc should only exec one program, and it should remain
in the foreground. If you exec anything as a background process then it will
run outside of the runsvdir process tree and will not be managed by it.