Question 1.16: Setting the Pi to Boot Straight into a Windowing System Ever......
Setting the Pi to Boot Straight into a Windowing System
Every time you reboot your Raspberry Pi, you have to log in and then start the desktop manually. You want to make this automatic.
You can use the raspi-config tool to change the boot behavior so that the Raspberry Pi automatically logs you in and starts the desktop. Run the raspi_config utility by issuing the following command in a Terminal:
| $ sudo raspi-config |
Then select the boot_behaviour option in the menu and follow the prompts shown in Figure 1-14.
After you change the boot option, you are prompted to restart your Raspberry Pi for the changes to take effect.
Discussion
Clearly there are security implications in allowing the Raspberry Pi to log you in to the windowing environment automatically. But because the Raspberry Pi will generally be used as a personal computer, rather than being shared, the convenience usually outweighs any such disadvantages.
See Also
You can find much more information about the raspi-config tool at http://elinux.org/RPi_raspi-config.
