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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Ron Clarke wrote:
> > >    Puting the startx command into profile seems to do what you want.
>
> > >    Of course, that may not be the best way. I am sure other lister(s) will 
> > > tell
> > > us if that is a dumb option.
>
> > It worked, but I think it will try to run X every time you log in on any
> > vt, which will disable the other vts since you can run X on only one at a
> > time.
>
>    Yes, that is true.
>
>    I have done it in BL2, so that when my wife logs in to MY machine,
> she goes straight to her GUI, and it is the last line in
> /home/monika/profile.

That should work better  - /home/user/.profile.
Dial as root, su user should put you into X, then opera.
That way they cannot forget to su user.  (I won't mention startx).

>    In BL3, unless you make a user with their own profile, it would
> require root to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to get back to the CLI.

The user won't be using the CLI, I will.

> >   No big deal to type startx, dial, su user, and then opera.
>
>   I agree.  :)
>
> Regards,
>        Ron
>
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