[Sussex] X automatic Login

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

John,

Depending on which version of firefox you're using, you may need to sub
firefox for firefox-bin.

got me stumped for ages that one... :)

Matt

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:56:15 +0000
Stephen Williams <sdp.williams at btinternet.com> enlightened us with:

> 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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