linux: auto-login

There’s couple of ways how to setup auto-login on linux. This one is geeky and not very user-friendly, but might come handy to somebody. This is on Ubuntu Linux 14.04.1/trusty with graphical login/desktop manager (lightdm) disabled.

install mingetty

edit /etc/init/tty1.conf so that it looks like this:

The most important part are the last three lines. Change username to what you have.

Edit your ~/.profile and add at the bottom:

Reboot and you should end up in your X session.

Sources:
askubuntu.com/quest…unning-upstart
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit