On Sun 18 Oct 2015 at 08:10:54 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > > >I don't know. I don't really understand your original question. It > said "How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way?" [snip] > > I have 2 machines. > One is Squeeze with Gnome2 DE. > One is Jessie with Mate DE. > Desired user name to be "myexperiments" having a minimal set [TBD] > privileges. > Power on yields operating system.
Squeeze Gnome2 is probably using gdm. What is the output of apt-get purge gdm I do not know what Jessie Mate uses. What is the output of apt-get purge <display_manager_on mate>