{"id":1186,"date":"2015-11-03T20:52:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2015-11-05T09:33:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T15:33:49","slug":"how-to-enable-auto-login-in-crunchbang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=1186","title":{"rendered":"Enable Auto Login in CrunchBang++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that a suitable replacement for CrunchBang has come along, you can use my previous guide <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?page_id=940\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> for optimizing the lightweight <a href=\"http:\/\/crunchbangplusplus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CrunchBang++<\/strong><\/a> Linux operating system as a guest virtual machine. One difference you will find is how to enable auto-login now that the core <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debian.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Debian<\/strong><\/a> base has changed in Jessie. The easy method of using a GUI is no longer available, but fret not as the changes required are minor. Simply perform the following steps to enable the auto-login functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Open a terminal window and run the following command to edit the proper config file:<\/p>\n<pre>$ sudo geany \/etc\/slim.conf<\/pre>\n<p>On line 37 delete the part of the login command after exec and up to the ampersand so the line now looks like this:<\/p>\n<pre>login_cmd          exec \/bin\/bash -login \/etc\/X11\/Xsession %session<\/pre>\n<p>Uncomment line 70 and change <strong>simone<\/strong> to your username:<\/p>\n<pre>default_user       nodakbarnes<\/pre>\n<p>Uncomment line 78 and change to <strong>yes<\/strong> to enable auto-login:<\/p>\n<pre>auto_login\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 yes<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! Now save the file and reboot and enjoy not having to login in every time to your VM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that a suitable replacement for CrunchBang has come along, you can use my previous guide here for optimizing the lightweight CrunchBang++ Linux operating system as a guest virtual machine. One difference you will find is how to enable auto-login now that the core Debian base has changed in Jessie. The easy method of using &#8230; <a title=\"Enable Auto Login in CrunchBang++\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/?p=1186\" aria-label=\"Read more about Enable Auto Login in CrunchBang++\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}