#1 2015-10-10 02:55:54

rodeoflea

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Registered: 2015-10-09

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Autologin

Anyone have any luck getting autologin to work in LightDM? I also can't seem to disable the lockscreen or set a default user.

Cheers.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2015-09-29

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Re: Autologin

Try this method:
https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM#Enable_autologin

Also: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=186

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schwim

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Re: Autologin

What you may be missing is the command at the top of the page that you have to run after any changes to the conf file..  Be sure to run the following in a terminal after making the changes to get them to take effect:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

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rodeoflea

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Registered: 2015-10-09

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Re: Autologin

To disable the autolocking :

rename or delete

/etc/xdg/autostart/light-locker.desktop

berniz95

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From: Vauréal France

Registered: 2016-02-23

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Re: Autologin

Digging that topic...

Try this method:
https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM#Enable_autologin

Also: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=186

(that last link is broken)

The first link tells to uncomment:

[SeatDefaults]
#autologin-user=
#autologin-user-timeout=0

Obviously you should also uncomment the following line:

#pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin

Which works.

Last edited by berniz95 (2016-07-13 12:55:05)

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Gaucho

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Registered: 2015-09-17

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Re: Autologin

To disable the autolocking :

rename or delete

/etc/xdg/autostart/light-locker.desktop

Better to just remove light-locker entirely, as an update/upgrade of light-locker will re-install that file...

sudo apt purge light-locker

If you don't want to remove it for some reason like you're using it in another session, copy light-locker.desktop to ~/.config/autostart , open it with a text editor and add or edit the Hidden= line to read...

Hidden=true

That will override the /etc/xdg file even after upgrades to light-locker.

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Registered: 2016-02-19

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Re: Autologin

The first link tells to uncomment:

[SeatDefaults]
#autologin-user=
#autologin-user-timeout=0

Obviously you should also uncomment the following line:

#pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin

Autologin works great for me without uncommenting the "pam-autologin-service" line.

Recheck the correct username (after the "=" without space).

If you want that you don't have to type the username on the login screen (e.g. after suspend), uncomment the line

greeter-hide-users=false

geolaw

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Registered: 2016-05-28

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Re: Autologin

I originally configured my system for autologin, then somewhere along the way with an update, something over wrote my config.

using the info above, the method that worked for me was to create a new file (something that isn't going to get over written with a future update)
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60_glaw.conf :

# BunsenLabs specific defaults
#
# - invoke user setup script on login
[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=glaw
autologin-user-timeout=0
pam-autologin-service=lightdm-autologin

(pam-autologin-service needed - I dunno) ...