DM-free Autologin into XFCE upon boot

Hyperspace

I used to be able to enter my XFCE system directly upon booting without a display manager installed, before the 66 update.
This meant that I did not have to manually type my username and password, and then execute startx in the tty to get into XFCE.

In the past, I have referred to this thread (https://forum.obarun.org/d/1345-autologin-and-starting-x-wmde-without-a-dm) to directly boot into my XFCE system without ever touching a single key (aside from the physical "on" button).
However, I am not sure how to do this on the new 66 system.

I acknowledge being a cybersecurity nightmare, but how would I enable autologin again?

eric

try to change to pass the option to the tty1 like this:

first configure the command line of the boot@system:tty-rc@tty1 to handle autologin setting

Args=!-J -a <username> 38400

You can do it using

# 66 configure -e <editor> boot@system:tty-rc@tty1

and reboot

# 66 reboot

To be honest, not tested

Hyperspace

Thank you, that allowed me autologin without typing my username and password!
However, I still remained on the tty afterwards, and had to manually execute startx.

I noticed that my .zlogin file is as copied from the post I referred to:
[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty3" ] && ! pidof Xorg >/dev/null 2>&1 && startx

tty3 no longer exists in my tree, and I only had tty1 and tty2.
I realized that I just had to change my .zlogin to match your instructions' tty1:
[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && ! pidof Xorg >/dev/null 2>&1 && startx

And now autologin & auto-startx directly into my XFCE system works, without manually typing startx at tty.
I also verified that tty2 is still available, in case anything bad happens in tty1 with autologin & auto-startx.