How do i disable the initial boot menu and enable auto login so that after the bios boots up it straight goes to the desktop?
In no way. I have tried many times.
This might be useful
What has no one commented on this yet? I am not a gamer, but this looks very useful. As you noted in your presentation, make yourself, and your followers aware of where to put your customization. The /dev user modified area’s etc. I have a number of these custom setups for my setup; it’s a server router running a Samba PDC. I don’t know if you have bumped into this yet, Nvidia Video GPU driver support is not available without a customization script. They (Clear Linux) do not support installing Nvidia proprietary drivers. If you have, the next update they will be dereferenced, however there are scripts people have documented to reinstall the necessary Nvidia proprietory drivers.
There were no working instructions
did you try what was written in the guide? if so, what did you try, and what failed to work?
leaving so little information doesn’t help narrow down any solutions.
also, since the guide was written based on the fact that gdm was used, it might not work if you’re using sddm or lightdm. provide more details please
Autologin into the session There were no working instructions
If you intend to use the machine also as a desktop, you can just ignore this part, adding the steam session to GDM will give you the console experience if you need it, and then if you want to do desktop stuff you can just select the normal GNOME session in the gdm gear menu thing and use your computer normally.
However, since my NUC is a dedicated gaming machine I do the last step to get a clean boot right into steam big picture mode, make a /etc/gdm/custom.conf and then:
[daemon]
AutomaticLogin=jorge
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
This will just autologin my user to whatever session I was in last, which by now is the steam session.
sudo clr-boot-manager set-timeout 0
sudo clr-boot-manager update
1st image before applying boot manager command
2nd image applying command
3rd image doesn’t work
Another thing isn’t working. Settings> system>users> automatic login doesn’t work.
OK, I think you’ve found a bug; I opened set-timeout 0 should set the timeout to 0, not remove it · Issue #263 · clearlinux/clr-boot-manager · GitHub and added a workaround there that I admittedly haven’t tried.
You could also have this behavior if you previously used bootctl set-timeout menu-force, which updates EFI boot variables instead of the loader config. Use bootctl set-timeout "" (empty quotes) to set that back to its default.