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Asked: 2014-02-27 17:14:13 +0800 CST

LXDE Auto Login

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I have a VERY old kubuntu server that I had to install LXDE on in order to keep it going (before lubuntu was born).

I just upgraded it to 12.04 as I finally had a need for some more modern features. Unfortunately I have no idea how to get auto login to the desktop working again.

I have found suggestions that the following files should be edited

/etc/lxdm/default.conf
/etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
/etc/xdg/lxdm/lxdm.conf
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

to include something like

[base]
## uncomment and set autologin username to enable autologin
autologin=username

but none of these files exist on my system and I cannot find any promising alternatives.

Any suggestions on what I should try or where I should look next would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

lxde

2 Answers

  1. Please follow the instructions found in the official Lubuntu Documentation

    Quote:

    For release 12.04 and on (LightDM)

    You will need to create an /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf with these contents: (do this as root)

    [SeatDefaults]
autologin-user=<YOUR USER>
autologin-user-timeout=0
# Check https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/854261 before setting a timeout
user-session=Lubuntu
greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
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  2. I was trying to set it up for a guest user on lubuntu 14.04. I found an answer that helped me: http://www.htpcbeginner.com/enable-lubuntu-auto-login/

    However the file mentioned there: /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf does not exist in lubuntu 14.04. But there is a file

    /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/20-lubuntu.conf

    This is the contents of the file that works for me:

    [SeatDefaults] 
user-session=Lubuntu
autologin-user-timeout=0
allow-guest=true
autologin-guest=true

    I have just still one nasty pop up error everytime when the system boots up:

    No session id for PID $ACHANGINGNUMBERFOREVERYSESSION

    And the screen locks after a couple minutes. (Tried following the procedure in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CustomizeGuestSession with the guest-prefs user, that user does not get the lockout anymore but the guest user does, even though the profile is soft-linked to the guest skeleton, maybe filerights, I will look into this and come back)

    However this may still be usefull for someone, if you find a solution to get rid of that error, please mention it as well.

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