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autologin in LXDE

hi

I have Wheezy with LXDE installed.
Howto setup autologin for a user in LXDE?

What login manager do you use?
The simplest and cleanest way, excluding nodm :P, is to install slim and change its conf so as it autologins.

[QUOTE=jim_p;4699651]What login manager do you use?

Login manager is lightdm.

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Howto setup autologin for a user in LXDE?

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Passwordless X logins (without kdm / gdm)

Display managers like GDM and KDM have a feature that enables you to log in a user automatically. However if you think gdm or kdm take up too much memory (especially if you want to use a twm / openbox / fluxbox / fvwm / lightweight session) you can avoid running a display manager as follows:

Edit /etc/conf.d/local.start and add the lines (replace <username> with your own username)

File: /etc/conf.d/local.start

Code:



# Start X as user if tty7 is free

if ! fuser /dev/tty7 >& /dev/null; then

    su - <username> -l -c 'exec startx -- vt7 >& ~/.xsession-errors' &

fi

From

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Passwordless_Login

You realize of course you are disabling the first measure of Linux security.

If using slim login manager.

Go to /etc/slim.conf and read and edit the file. Always make a backup first before editing and saving /etc/slim.conf in case you bork things and need to restore the original. mc (Midnight Commander console file manager can do this out of X if need be).

I use slim ,but do I not auto login on my LXDE install on AntiX 8.5 core.iso install.

If using LXDM login manager in Debian
http://linux.overshoot.tv/wiki/syste...uto_login#lxdm

Edit: just saw your post in front of mine.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ling_Autologin

Hi,

lightdm in Debian does not currently have this feature. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636104

If you want this feature you are probably best using one of the other display managers (as suggested by others) or you could use one of the workarounds discussed in the bug report thread.

Evo2.

---------- Post added 2012-06-10 at 15:37 ----------

Hi,

lightdm in Debian does not currently have this feature. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636104

If you want this feature you are probably best using one of the other display managers (as suggested by others) or you could use one of the workarounds discussed in the bug report thread.

Evo2.

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Originally Posted by evo2 (Post 4699844)

I used the work around in the bug report and auto login worked fine. If you read the whole report you will see the Dev does not want to fix this problem as he sees it as a security risk. Slim is broken in Wheezy and believe development has stop. lightdm works fine once you add the the Pam files.