How do I do automatically login to an xfce session?
I'm using Debian 11 xfce on a client, but he's not liking to login. So I wanted to make it automatic.
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How to do this depends on what display manager you're using.
For example, on my mythtv box (which also happens to be a Debian machine running xfce), I am using lightdm, and I want the mythtv user to automatically login after a 10 second delay (to give me an opportunity to login as another user).
To achieve this, I have the following in the [SeatDefaults] section of /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
autologin-user = mythtv autologin-user-timeout = 10 The above only works for lightdm. If you're using a different display manager (e.g. gdm3, lxdm, sddm, or one of several others), you will have to read the documentation to find out a) if they support automatic login, and b) how to do it.
IMO you would be better off teaching your client that having to log in is for his safety - nobody can access their data unless they know the login name and the password.
auto-login features are intended more for kiosk-like situations (where a PC is running as an appliance), not really to bypass basic security.