[kpedersen]

Hello again everyone. I hope all is well since the last post around 6 years ago

I finally found a solution to this that I thought I might share:

The trick is to keep checking until getty is running. This is because if getty starts after X11, it seems to grab the input devices leaving the machine locked.

A script like this called from rc.local should be enough to automatically startx from a user.

while true; do

  pkill -0 getty
  RESULT=$?

  if [ $RESULT = 0 ]; then
    break
  fi

  sleep 1

done

su -l kpedersen -c startx

Hope this helps.