[Sussex] X automatic Login

[Stephen Williams]

John,

How's your Italian? Parliamo Italiano?

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 22:16, John D. wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 15:46, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:43:44PM +0000, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> > > I would like to power it up, have it login automatically, start X and
> > > load gpsdrive onto my display.
> > 
> > http://linuxgazette.net/issue72/chung.html
> > 
> Sorry, a little bit of a hijack.
> 
> Thomas's reply reminded me, I've still got a few bit's and pieces to
> tidy up with this new shiney Gentoo install (various settings and so far
> about 100 or so config files to look into :-().
> 
> The first one being, where in hells name is the config setting for
> evolution so that when I click on a link, the bugger opens a browser?
> 
> My previous install of mandrake, links in "evo", automatically opened
> epiphany, but this one doesn't (yet), and I'll be blowed if I can find
> that as an option.
> 
> Could anyone enlighten me?
> 

Try this link:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=228827&highlight=evolution+browser



Basically enter the following commands, modified to suit your choice of
browser, for https:

$ gconftool-2 --type=string --set
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command "firefox %s" 
$ gconftool-2 --type=bool --set
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/need-terminal false 
$ gconftool-2 --type=bool --set
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled true 

For http:

$ gconftool-2 --type=string --set
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "firefox %s" 
$ gconftool-2 --type=bool --set
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/need-terminal false 
$ gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled
true

Hope this helps.

Steve Williams.


> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
> p.s. Erm, yes, sorry for the little hijack, I'm just off to cut and past
> the link in a bloody browser - that's one of the things the my setup
> doesn't do yet (autologin to X, well properly anyway).
> 
> 
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