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First before anything I have installed a Ubuntu 16.10

After I installed it I have a tty1 open. I have installed Xorg and xfwm4 (X Window Manager)

If I do following:

  • tty1: login
  • type: startx
  • tty2: login
  • type: export DISPLAY=:0
  • type: chromium-browser
  • tty1: (Chromium Browser will be there and open)

How can I automate such a thing without doing it manually every time? It should happen after login, but only if user login is happened in TTY1. I don't want reserve the other TTYs.

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Do you always start chromium? If yes, you need a running X-Server. So, you may just want to use the desktop environment to auto start chromium. For XFCE (You use XFCE, right?) see:

https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/autostart-in-xfce-4.3-wie/

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  • The actual problem is that, because I don't want to use xfce. I want use (super extremely lightweight) way to open browser. Kiosk mode doesn't show the Window bars. I noticed that the .bash_profile executes on login too, but running a 'startx' doesn't allow me to run other commands (from same) shell. So basically this won't work: "startx && chromium-browser" while running startx the console output will stop with executing rest of commands.
    – Weird E.
    Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 10:46
  • Ah. I see your point. May you try it with xinit? See here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit
    – Tobias
    Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 10:58
  • On .xinitrc there's "exec xfwm4", but I cannot make it work to start Window Manager and then start Chromium. It starts only the Window Manager. I think that the startx output will break the executing the rest of commands.
    – Weird E.
    Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 11:02
  • Did you try to add chromium to xinitrc?
    – Tobias
    Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 11:15
  • Actually yes, but I am not sure did I format it properly. I tried "exec xfwm4 && chromium-browser" after that I also tried "exec xfwm4" and under that a line "exec chromium-browser"
    – Weird E.
    Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 11:17

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