[Solved]How to enable autologin with lightdm on LMDE2 Betsy?

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[Solved]How to enable autologin with lightdm on LMDE2 Betsy?

Post by BrunoMiranda »

Hi all,

I'm trying to get lightdm to autologin on LMDE2, but i'm not being able to get it to work.

I've followed this procedure: (I know it's for Wheezy, not for Jesse on which LMDE2 is based)

http://siripong-computer-tips.blogspot. ... heezy.html

But it is not working.


Here's my /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf: (with the commented lines removed for a clearer reading)


[LightDM]


[SeatDefaults]
autologin-user={bruno}
autologin-user-timeout=0
pam-service=lightdm-autologin


[XDMCPServer]


[VNCServer]



Does anyone know if I need to add anything to this or any other file?
Any help, please? Thanks! :wink:
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Re: How to enable autologin with lightdm on LMDE2 Betsy?

Post by zerozero »

not

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autologin-user={bruno}
but

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autologin-user=bruno
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li ... _autologin
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Re: How to enable autologin with lightdm on LMDE2 Betsy?

Post by jimallyn »

Just yesterday I had to fix autologin on a system running MX-14. I had installed with one user set to autologin, then wound up deleting that user and couldn't log anybody in. To fix it, all I had to do was change the old autologin user to the desired new autologin user. Just don't put the name in curly braces and it should work fine.

Edit: I see zerozero beat me to the punch. So I second his motion.
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[Solved] How to enable autologin with lightdm on LMDE2 Betsy

Post by BrunoMiranda »

Yes, you were both right. It's working now! :mrgreen:

Caught by the curly braces... :lol:


One more rounded edge! :wink: Debian for the win :P

Thank you both so much, Zerozero and Jimallyn!
Bruno
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