Mint LXDE 10 automatic login? SOLVED

[al.adab]

hello, just come back to Mint

I can't set Mint to log in automatically, for some reason...

Menu>Preferences>Users&Groups>Password (change to) "not asked on login" didn't help.

Neither did
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=65964&p=380992&hilit=automatic+login#p380992
("dgod" is nowhere in the file, so don't know what else I should replace with my username...I tried to replace "base" but it didn't work").

Can you please help?

[AlbertP]

This may help you: http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1282

[al.adab]

thanks but /etc/slim.conf is empty...
the edit command I'm using is leafpad

[Aging Technogeek]

To log in automatically in Mint 10 LXDE, open a terminal and type

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 sudo leafpad /etc/xdg/lxdm/lxdm.conf

enter your password and, when the file opens, change the first two lines from this

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#autologin=mint
#session=/usr/bin/startmintlxde

to this

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autologin=john
session=/usr/bin/startmintlxde

Replace "john" with your user name.

Save the changed file and close the window and the terminal. You should now be set to log in automatically.

[al.adab]

Thanks tons. It worked

[fish_b0oy]

Sorry that I'm writing here. But your method doesn't work for me!
I have installed linux mint lxde version today with all the updates...
Here is my lxdm.conf file:

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[base]
autologin=user
session=/usr/bin/startmintlxde
# numlock=0
greeter=/usr/lib/lxdm/lxdm-greeter-gtk

last_session=mint-lxde.desktop

last_lang=

[server]
# arg=/usr/bin/X -nr vt1

[display]
gtk_theme=Mint-X-Metal
bg=/usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint-julia/emvalibe_silver.jpg
bottom_pane=1
lang=1
theme=Mint

[input]



user is my username

[allow_guests]

It works for me if I edit this file instead: /etc/lxdm/default.conf

That file is linked to two others:
/etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf
/etc/xdg/lxdm/live.conf