Nice, now we have 2 threads with very similar content ;). So this is for Re: Autologin to locked desktop was: Re: LightWorks for Linux Demo too Arch Linux with Xfce: $ cat .xinitrc #!/bin/sh # # ~/.xinitrc # # Executed by startx (run your window manager from here) if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f" done unset f fi exec startxfce4 # exec xterm Remove the display manager and after startup there will appear the user prompt were you need to run startx to start a xfce session. IIRC that is how I did it, before I installed lightdm. Depending to your startup done by init, upstart or systemd, there might be different ways to run a script automatically that first does startx and if wanted, then does lock the screen and after that if wanted, will start the audio applications automatically. Perhaps such a script can be in $ ls -hAl /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ total 8.0K -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 242 Dec 6 02:23 30-dbus -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 398 Dec 10 12:58 40-libcanberra-gtk-module _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user