mdillenk wrote: ⤴Sun May 27, 2018 1:20 pm
for some reason my distro of Mint 18.3 had lightdm running and not mdm.
That's standard from 18.2 on. See https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3306
Time to lock this thread: it's about too many different versions of Mint, and that can only cause confusion.
If your issue is solved, kindly indicate that by editing the first post in the topic, and adding [SOLVED] to the title. Thanks!