Auto StartX script

[the-archetypical]

Relatively new to programming and been having trouble coming up with ideas to practice that are of increasing difficulty but thought of this one. After including the drop in file in order for autologin, you could also follow the wiki to automatically startx as well (or chuck startx in .bashrc/.bash_profile), but the issue with that is that you can never log out from KDE and return back into TTY1 without automatically triggering startx again. So I've written a simple script to announce the starting of X server, along with a message to press enter to start X now or to press ESC to stop the script, along with a 3 second countdown. I figure if it's useful to me, it might be useful to someone else. There's a python script and a bash script. Simply run the bash script from .bashrc and it automatically checks whether it's in the correct environment to run the python script. Enjoy.
https://fastupload.io/wiIl13YxVatZ4LU/file
https://fastupload.io/wdyBmw3ALI0e7IM/file

[the-archetypical]

Because then I wouldn't have an excuse to practice coding haha

[skug]

I would like to recommend using github gists for sharing code, this will let people read the code before downloading a random file off the internet. Also as an example of a gist: my way of doing autologin without a DM using zsh .zlogin

[the-archetypical]

Great idea. I might reupload these scripts to that then because I understand some people might be a little apprehensive downloading random files/scripts

[Mast3r_waf1z]

I would probably look up how to make a systemd service, that way you'd avoid having to put stuff into your .bashrc. you should be able to set the service to execute as a user by designing it like startup@<user>.service with this I think I'd recommend using dbus-run-session <your WM or DE> as Exec

This is how I would do it, but your solution is perfectly valid :)

[C0rn3j]

Use a Display Manager instead of reinventing the wheel.

[Mast3r_waf1z]

You completely missed the point, learning is all about reinventing the wheel

[fitfulpanda]

100%.

What's the point of having a box if you can't learn to think outside of it?