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>

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